Literature

Remembering The Merchant of Prato

A vivid picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance

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Too many women are being murdered

Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide

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The celebrification of children’s literature

Children’s book publishing needs to take a step away from celebrities

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A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism

György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy

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The demise of the second-hand bookshop

Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller

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The fear of the fever: how we are now living the authentic Victorian experience

Covid-19 is bringing us closer to the Victorians more than any recreation of an 1830s London townhouse ever could

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Nobel Noblemen

Beckett, Camus and Monod arrived by different roads at the same destination thanks to their common experience of fighting injustice

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Writer Dodie Smith’s influences were far from Primrose Hill…

Instead of the chocolate-box pink stucco houses of Primrose Hill, it was the castles and cottages of Suffolk which served as Smith’s inspiration

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Ripley returns

Rejoice, Ripley is back! But why are we so drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero?

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Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed

Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic

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