England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee review – battle lines are drawn
Sana Goyal
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The two authors illusion – cartoon
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The books of my life
Caleb Azumah Nelson: ‘James Baldwin ignited something in me that’s still burning today’
The British-Ghanaian author on having his mind blown by Malorie Blackman as a child, the allure of John Williams’s Stoner and why Zadie Smith made him want to write
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Liz Truss book enters bestseller list in 70th place with 2,228 copies sold
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Booker prize urged to consider name change over slavery link
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Martha Mills young writers’ prize open for entries
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You
George the Poet
Poetry is the artistic wing of politics
He performed at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding and was offered an MBE before he turned 30 – but the writer is ready to head in a more radical direction
Jo Hamya
Could I just write one massive grey area?
The novelist and critic on finding inspiration in her Twitter timeline, why she found the middle-aged man in her new book easier to write than his daughter, and how she learned her craft through poetry
Sarah Perry
For much of my life, I loved God. The echo of that never fades
Poet Jackie Kay
I could have been brought up by Tories!
Sunjeev Sahota
I’ve always been in labour movements – but I’m critical of identity politics
‘I’d love a scathing review’
Novelist Percival Everett on American Fiction and rewriting Huckleberry Finn
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The books of my life
Caleb Azumah Nelson: ‘James Baldwin ignited something in me that’s still burning today’
Big idea
The big idea: what if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?
Rather than being an optional extra, dreams might be vital to our functioning
Where to start with
Where to start with: Patricia Highsmith
Thanks to Netflix’s moody adaptation, Ripley, there’s more awareness of Highsmith’s skills as an expert writer of guilt, ambivalence and moral dilemmas at odds with reality
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