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Francis Spufford’s latest is a gorgeously rich and multilayered story, packed with gunfire, music and superstition
The Dimensions of a Cave proposes a variation on Plato: which is the true choice between reality and shadow?
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
