The revenge of the young male novelist
Can good writing solve our crisis of masculinity?
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Epic sexual promiscuity was the key to White’s literary output.
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The People’s Republic of iPhone
How Apple unwittingly assisted China’s global technological dominance.
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Have we reached peak humanity?
Johan Norberg’s history of civilisation is an impressive conceptual achievement – but it has little to say about our own…
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The epic of James Joyce
How Richard Ellmann’s capacious 1959 biography shaped modern life writing.
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Neo-Nazi safari
How close can any journalist get to the English far right?
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Picnic at Hanging Rock’s vision of girlhood
Peter Weir’s 1975 film, like Joan Lindsey’s original novel, understands that being a teenage girl is an experience full of…
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From Helen Oyeyemi to bell hooks: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Irascible by Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi and To Have or to Hold by Sophie Pavelle.
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