Category: Literature
Chuk Iwuji: ‘My Hamlet is an ugly beast about to be unleashed’
A stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Iwuji is finally playing Hamlet, in a production inspired by Black Lives Matter and which is being performed in homeless shelters and prisons. For the Nigerian-born British actor Chuk Iwuji, to be or not to be wasnt remotely the question when it came to playing Hamlet. He has […]
Ottessa Moshfegh interview: Eileen started out as a joke, also I’m broke, also I want to be famous
The books interview: the Man Booker-shortlisted author talks about writing a thriller to get noticed, exorcising her childhood and sexist critics. So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me This is the story of how I disappeared. Ottessa Moshfeghs novel, Eileen, shortlisted this week for the Man Booker prize, centres […]
US afflicted with ‘third world’ police says author Marlon James
Speaking in Paris, the Jamaica-born Man Booker prize-winner compared US police to Argentina state-sanctioned death squads The United States is afflicted with third World police which has led to almost state-sanctioned killings of people from minority groups, one of the countrys leading black writers said on Sunday. Marlon James, who won the Man Booker prize […]
Whodunnit and whowroteit: the strange case of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
The real mystery of this 1930s cult thriller is not its murder, but the identity of its writer. So, asks Jonathan Coe, who was Cameron McCabe and what were the facts behind his fiction? This extraordinary work of postmodern fakery from the golden age of detective fiction was last reprinted 30 years ago, and in […]
Dennis Cooper’s blog re-launched after Google censorship criticisms
Artist and author writes that tech firm will provide all Gmail correspondence and gif novel he was working on, and post data from site to new domain post-by-post. Artist and author Dennis Cooper re-launched his popular blog on Monday after months of legal disputes with Google, who many accused of censorship. The artist posted a […]