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How good is Colson Whitehead?

He’s got the film adaptations, two Pulitzers and support from the Obamas – but he’s not yet mastered his craft

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Reality outstrips plausibility in a still-unfolding case around a double homicide

By Tobias Grey

The tendency to ignore sex variations harms men and women both – and damages scientific credibility

By Hannah Barnes

The acclaimed literary critic liked to make enemies, but he was also a reassuring letter writer to his friends

By William Giraldi

Holden Caulfield is a Christ-figure, half-human, half-divine

By Lee Siegel

In the early-modern period, as in our own, the category of “woman” could take many shapes

By Emily Ogden

Édouard Louis has become famous for mining his troubled family for material. Is he still as candid as before?

By Matt Rowland Hill

Colin Grant once more brings us the voices of the British migrant experience too often ignored

By K Biswas