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Fletcher Knebel’s novel has much to say about the fragility of our democratic institutions and the dangers of unchecked authority.
The acclaimed American filmmaker David Lynch has died at the age of 78.
Mike Davis traces natural disaster and climate change in Los Angeles over centuries, painting a vivid picture of a city on the perpetual brink of...
The life and death of acclaimed writer Yukio Mishima is a cautionary reminder of the complex, sometimes dangerous relationship between creativity and...
This month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century’s towering literary achievements, it is a...
This month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century’s towering literary achievements, it is a...
Gavin McInnes, founder of far-right “Western chauvinist” group the Proud Boys, told a BBC documentary that “the corrupt leftwing media” was...
A century ago, French writer André Breton published a manifesto that would go on to become one of the most influential artistic texts of the 20th...
A few months ago, the president of prestigious French publishing house Gallimard reported that Meta’s generative AI tool had refused requests to...
Love her or loathe her, Ayn Rand is an undeniably influential figure. Her contemporary admirers range from celebrities – Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie,...
Rachel Kushner ranks among the finest novelists working today. The recipient of several major literary awards and a former Guggenheim Fellow,...
André Dao’s debut novel Anam (Penguin Random House) has just won the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, worth A$80,000. This follows...
Born in East Ayrshire in 1909, the Scottish educator and governess Marion Crawford, who trained as a child psychologist, is best remembered – if...
“Donald was pissed. Boy, was he pissed.” This is how Fred C. Trump III describes the moment, sometime in the early 1970s, when his uncle, Donald J....
Virginia Woolf always maintained that, of all of the great writers, the British novelist Jane Austen “is the most difficult to catch in the act of...