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Julian Barnes’s playfully incisive ‘The Man in the Red Coat’
This biography of a suave Belle Époque physician doubles as a literary response to Brexit
‘The Topeka School’ by Ben Lerner
The American author’s latest novel canvasses the seething hate speech of the burgeoning alt-right and white-boy rap battles in the Midwest
Agents of chaos: Peter Pomerantsev’s ‘This Is Not Propaganda’
The Russian expat journalist wonders if democracy can survive the internet, as social media is used to promote feelings over facts
Damascene subversion: Christos Tsiolkas’s ‘Damascus’
The literary storyteller’s latest novel wrestles with the mythology of Christianity’s founder, Paul the Apostle
‘How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy’
Jenny Odell makes a convincing case for moving beyond the ruthless logic of use
‘The Man Who Saw Everything’ by Deborah Levy
The British author experiments with a narrative structure that collapses past and present
The writer of ‘Took the Children Away’ delivers a memoir of his Stolen Generations childhood and an album of formative songs
Radical ambiguity: Jia Tolentino, Rachel Cusk and Leslie Jamison
The essay collections ‘Trick Mirror’, ‘Coventry’ and ‘Make It Scream, Make It Burn’ offer doubt and paradoxical thinking in the face of algorithmic perfectionism
Remembering Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019)
Afterwards, nothing is the same: Shirley Hazzard
On the splendour of the acclaimed author’s distinctly antipodean seeing