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Fiction
If Orwell’s novel is a fable of ideology gone wrong, Sandra Newman’s book is the story of a young woman who believes in nothing
The second volume of his trilogy serves as a prequel to the first, tracing the origins of Norway’s ominous new celestial body
Is it a place, or a state of mind, or a bit of both?
She masterfully uses the smallest details — of dress, food, décor — to convey class and character
It’s hard to find writers ancient or modern who have used language with a music, wit and tenderness comparable to Moore’s
‘It would be very difficult, with the homogenization of culture, to publish a book like Trainspotting now’
There’s something nihilistic about a culture that no longer cares about bringing new life into the world
The beauty of dirty realism is that it captures regular life in all its stupefying, and sometimes transcendent, malaise
When I was a child, manners were as important as morals — in fact they mattered more
