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Stephen F. Cohen, an eminent historian whose books and commentaries on Russia examined the rise and fall of Communism, Kremlin dictatorships and the emergence of a post-Soviet nation still struggling for identity in the 21st century, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81. His wife, Katrina vanden Heuvel, the publisher and part owner of The Nation, […]
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Humanizing To the Editor: Thanks for the insightful set of reviews on white supremacy in America in your Sept. 6 issue: Jon Meacham’s historical essay on Southern white intellectuals such as Edward Alfred Pollard and David W. Blight, Walter Isaacson’s review of Edward Ball’s “Life of a Klansman” and Susan Neiman’s review of Seyward Darby’s “Sisters in Hate.” These reviews […]
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Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 winner Maggie O’Farrell talks to Stylist about the life lesson we can all learn from her novel Hamnet, the female writers we should be reading right now, and what it’s been like writing from her children’s Wendy house during lockdown. When the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 shortlist was announced earlier this year, we knew […]
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A green-fingered mum determined to teach kids about the power of fruit and veg has written a children’s book to educate them on the benefits of healthy eating. Selina Brown, from Birmingham, wrote and self-published children’s book, Nena: The Green Juice, while looking after her two-year-old daughter during lockdown. The idea for the self-funded book came after noticing how her daughter, […]
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After a brief break back in Santa Fe, George RR Martin is back up at his mountain cabin working hard on The Winds of Winter. And in his latest post, the 71-year-old reassured fans that he’s working hard on the delayed ASOIAF novel. The author wrote: “I write most days, sometimes into the evenings.” That’s certainly encouraging, since Martin has […]
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He had an insatiable appetite for lovers, but cast them aside when he tired of them… So why is a new biography reluctant to explore the painter Lucian Freud’s priapic excesses? The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame, 1968-2011, is by William Feaver and costs £35 This second volume covers the workaholic half of Freud’s life But there is very little […]
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In doing so, this champion of female sexual freedom gave an unforgettable voice to the women of the slums of south London with her short story collection, Up The Junction, and made a lifetime’s worth of friends in the process. We are talking today about her new memoir, The Muse, which takes up the story of one of those friendships. […]
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Winds of Winter has been a long time coming, and its author George RR Martin has been teasing how much he has been writing. He has been away in his cabin writing for most of the lockdown, with assistants coming in and out to help him. Now, in a recent post, he revealed a book will be hitting shelves – […]
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel examining the consequences of government overreach. The story takes place in an imagined future when the world has fallen victim to perpetual war and Britain has become a province of a totalitarian superstate, named Oceania. Its success popularised the term “Orwellian” as an adjective that is still used today in […]
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‘I didn’t sleep with everyone…I wouldn’t have had time to paint!’ The words of one member of the artsy Hampstead set who were in and out of each others’ beds in the 1930s – when they weren’t playing nude cricket! Sculptor Barbara Hepworth and painter Ben Nicholson fell passionately in love Neither of them seemed particularly concerned about their respective […]
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