Tome & Plume: This Generation’s Virginia Woolf, Samantha Harvey Wins Booker Prize
Han Kang and Samantha Harvey. Both are women. Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature and Harvey, the Booker Prize. Critic Gaby Wood hailed Harvey as this generation’s Virginia Woolf. Her latest ...
Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, celebrity writers whose friendship soured
Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz” is a sparkling and ardent look at the conflicting sensibilities of two iconic Californians ...
The best biographies and memoirs of 2024: Literary It-girls, art world intrigue and sociopathy
Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, ...
The best biographies and memoirs of 2024, from Elizabeth II’s life to Rushdie’s near-death
Virginia Woolf, Hilary Mantel and Prince Harry, we learn from A Voyage Around the Queen (Fourth Estate, £25), have each ...