A slap heard around the world
While plenty of people claim to hate it, The Slap by Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas is outselling its competition on the Booker longlist – what is it about race, class and sexism that we find so fascinating?
Comic book guy no more
‘Unearthing’, Alan Moore’s audiovisual biography of his mentor and spiritual guru Steve Moore, marks his move away from comic books – a world that now ‘disgusts’ him, he says
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The little voices in our heads that last a lifetime
Authors and readers alike shy away from the child narrator but for her latest novel, Emma Donoghue had to discover the voice of a five-year-old
A gift of time in California
One of the team who invented the contraceptive pill, Carl Djerassi established an artist’s retreat in the Santa Cruz mountains in memory of his daughter. Éilís Ní Dhuibhne has been working on her novel there this summer
Reviews »
Looking back, moving forward
HISTORY: MARIANNE ELLIOTT reviews Ireland: A History , By Thomas Bartlett, Cambridge University Press, 625pp, £25
On the path towards sainthood
BIOGRAPHY: PÁDRAIC CONWAY reviews Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint , by John Cornwell, Continuum, 273pp, £18.99
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