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Geoff Dyer

Failure to Turn

The majordomo of literary non-fiction meditates upon his mortality, his ear hair, and his complicated feelings toward the oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino.
Jan 26, 2024
Nesrine Malik

Elder States, Man

To spend your life online is to live at one remove from reality – stand back too far, and you might find the years speeding by before your eyes.
Jan 19, 2024
Róisín Lanigan

The Chic Young Divorcée

Making a swift 180 down the aisle.
Dec 19, 2023
Harriet Rix

Lost in the Woods

Guy Shrubsole’s schemes have the potential to unleash havoc in the British countryside.
Apr 18, 2023
Richard Woodall

The View from Mount Olympus

2012’s Summer Olympics were a harbinger of the dreadful decade to come.
May 23, 2021
Fergus Butler-Gallie

At the Altar of Capital

How the Conservative Party lost their religion to the pull of the market.
Jan 12, 2021
Richard Smyth

The State of Nature

A classic treatise against men writing about the natural world.
Dec 7, 2020
Séamas O’Reilly

FBPE Fantasia

Unpicking the last four years of Remaniac delusions.
Nov 23, 2020
Joe Kennedy

Herdmindedness

Do good novelists have to write good novels?
Oct 10, 2020
Ella Cory-Wright

Conversations with Friends about Sally Rooney

An epistolary inquiry into the zeitgeist, the novels, the publishers and me.
Mar 2, 2020
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