Nick Cave’s musings on life, death and creativity
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan reviewed
Books
Sunday
The bookish life of John Carey
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey reviewed
Living one’s best life
It helps to have a soft spot for life-wisdom books
A comedian explains how to quit social media
James Acaster has not stopped exploring where he might want to go
Friday
Exposing the logical fallacies of Critical Race Theory
A sharp new book takes a look at its quackery
Thursday
Literary journal in flames after interview with Spectator writer
Alex Perez snaps Hobart Pulp
Wednesday
Alan Rickman and the misery of being famous
He was an in-demand movie star yet it seemed to bring him only stress and unhappiness
Tuesday
Free expression after the Rushdie attack
It was an assault on literary free speech itself
Bob Dylan, the song and dance man
A new biography captures his entire world
Exploring the decline of Britain’s birds
Patrick Galbraith’s latest goes searching for kittiwakes and grouses
Has the American novel abandoned God?
Our literary life today speaks of a crisis of faith
The Soviets brought far from home
Kilometer 101 explores political undesirables who were exiled from Moscow
A haunting novel remembers 1990s Ukraine
Explored commonalities between Ukraine and Russia have since erupted into war
Thursday
A glimpse into Anthony Bourdain’s final days
A new book explores his weariness and turbulent relationship with Asia Argento
Saturday
No stone unturned
Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, has written a very bad book
Friday
Hilary Mantel — a death before her time
English literature has been robbed of one of its most fascinating voices
Tuesday
Porn again
There’s no reconciling the clash between the sex positivity movement and chastity
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land at 100
A century after its first publication, the poem still defies easy categorization
Paul Theroux’s family values
He’s never been averse to writing about toxic family relationships
A.M. Homes’s state of paranoia
Her latest leaves us stranded between serious fiction and a particularly extreme Reddit forum
