The best books of 2024: From Sally Rooney to Boris Johnson Live! Okay, that headline is ever-so-slightly misleading – while many of the entries on this list are indeed among the best books of 2024, others earn their place by virtue of being emblematic of their time (Boris Unleashed), zeitgeist-capturing (Bad Girls of Ancient Greece) or simply so utterly bonkers we felt they earned a spot (The [...]
Sally Rooney Intermezzo review: Normal People author’s shift to the male perspective comes at a cost Life&Style Moody men take the spotlight in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo, leaving the women as martyrs in the process, writes Anna Moloney.
Eco activists calling for literature festival boycotts should read a book Alys Denby Writers signing a letter calling on book festival sponsor Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuels exhibit a lazy habit of mind that has no place in literature, says Alys Denby The arts should always be anti-establishment. Only an autocracy would demand that all its creative output mindlessly cohered to the values of the regime. [...]