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· Sep 22, 2024 · 05:30 pm
‘The Dispossessed’: Ursula K Le Guin’s SciFi novel’s political power endures even 50 years later

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· Jun 16, 2024 · 05:30 pm
Marquis de Sade, a feminist icon? Novelist Angela Carter’s surprising take on a notorious writer

‘The Sadeian Woman’ by Angela Carter attempts the near impossible, claiming Sade as a proto-feminist author.

Alexander Howard, The Conversation
· Apr 16, 2024 · 03:30 pm

‘Answered Prayers’: Was it worth it for Truman Capote to write about his society friends’ secrets?

Readers were bemused – what was Capote hoping to achieve by besmirching the reputations of those closest to him?

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· Feb 25, 2024 · 05:30 pm
‘The Wolves of Eternity’: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ambitious new novel imagines Europe’s last decades

It ends with an ominous star and the return of the dead.

Alexander Howard, The Conversation
· Dec 30, 2023 · 05:30 pm
Why Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for giving a ‘voice to the unsayable’

Fosse is the fourth Norwegian to win the prize.

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· Oct 06, 2023 · 12:30 pm

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The principal character, an idealistic theoretical physicist, was partly based on J Robert Oppenheimer, a friend of Le Guin’s parents.

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Ayn Rand’s hero burns the world down when he doesn’t get his way. Her fans run the world today

Should we worry about the message of Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ for those of her followers in important positions?

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Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel of adolescence in ’80s Los Angeles is autofiction for our digital age

The story is set in the autumn of 1981 and revolves around a cluster of wealthy students.

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