A surefire way to alienate people is to talk about the dream you had last night. In polite society, we’re generally told nobody cares about the goings-on of our subconscious and that it’s probably best to keep quiet. Nothing, then, quite prepares one for the oneiric delights to be found in Jung’s Life and Work,
The octogenarian author can still conjure magical prose
The Great Gatsby turns 100 this month
The Crying of Lot 49 is often hawked as the gateway drug to the writer’s peculiar universe
This bizarre story would teeter on the incredible if it weren’t wholly true
What the notorious films have to say about masculinity in crisis?
The director has spent his time pushing the boundaries of cinema to the extreme
Prose style matters less than access to toxic love, pain and suffering… and a light smattering of suicide and violent death
How do we recognize the real manifestation of evil in the world? Two new books set out to answer this question and prove that it is a timely one
As it stands, its place as a literary locus in the American canon is a fraught one
This month marks the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of hippie culture itself
Until August has a curiously half-baked feel, as if it’s a souvenir of a great man’s legacy rather than a work in itself
If the Thomas Pynchon novel adaptation has anything to say about the American dream, it is to mock its high-falutin’ nature
Taking our mortality too seriously has been an increasing problem in our country. Thank heavens for the satirists who refuse to do so
From our UK edition
DNA test kits may have been all the rage in recent years, but how much can they really tell us about our ancestors? Cold, hard data is, by definition, neither sentimental nor sympathetic. Or so says Simon Mawer, whose latest novel asks where, in our austere conception of the past as a graveyard of artefacts,
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If you were to glance only briefly at the title of the Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s prose debut you might be forgiven for assuming that A Ghost in the Throat was a story about demonic possession — and you wouldn’t be entirely wrong. Demonic? No. Possession? Certainly. This spectral, arresting and at times disorientating
