Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Foster review – the past isn’t a foreign place
Matthew Reisz
News
Labour MP Dawn Butler withdraws from Hay festival in sponsorship row
Butler is among several writers refusing to appear at the literary festival over sponsor Baillie Gifford’s alleged involvement in ‘technology and arms in Israel’
News
Salman Rushdie says a Palestinian state formed today would be ‘Taliban-like’
Novelist, who teaches at New York University, says he finds it strange that progressive students currently ‘kind of support a fascist terrorist group’
The big idea
The simple trick that can sabotage your critical thinking
Amanda Montell
Book of the day
The Great Wave by Michiko Kakutani review – overcoming ‘permacrisis’
Tim Adams
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
An Epitaph on the Death of Nicholas Grimald by Barnabe Googe
Graphic novel of the month
So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle review – an irresistible celebration of female courage
Rachel Cooke
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza on femicide in Mexico
‘I was in a kind of ecstatic freefall’
Artist Miranda July on writing the book that could change your life
The artist and filmmaker has always enjoyed challenging convention. Now she has written a novel which takes a breathtaking look at menopause, sex, death and transformation
Deborah Levy
Writing and swimming help each other
The novelist and memoirist on stamina and solitude, the influence of surrealist art on her work, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s revelatory travel writing
‘This is much more intimate’
Colm Tóibín on writing a sequel to Brooklyn, 15 years on
‘I have my iPhone, X and a brain in my head’
Ukrainian journalist and social media star Illia Ponomarenko
‘It was just so much fun’
The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley
‘I can say things other people are afraid to’
Margaret Atwood on censorship, literary feuds and Trump
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Regulars
The books of my life
Hari Kunzru: ‘I am just as enchanted by The Great Gatsby now as when I first read it as an A-level student’
Big idea
The big idea: the simple trick that can sabotage your critical thinking
Influencers and politicians use snappy cliches to get you on side – but you can fight fire with fire
Where to start with
Where to start with: Franz Kafka
Inscrutable bureaucracy and monstrous insects may not sound immediately appealing, but once you’re lost in Kafka’s world you won’t want to escape
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
You may have missed
Alice Munro remembered
Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform
Should plants be given rights?
What new botanical breakthroughs could mean
Paul Auster remembered
A literary voice for the ages
Franz Kafka
What we learn about Kafka from his uncensored diaries
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
