Amis, Hitchens and Larkin: bad behaviour and a messy personal life were once a gift for authors. Not any more | Martha Gill
Flaws used to feed their sales but now writers are expected to be saints
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Flaws used to feed their sales but now writers are expected to be saints
Atwood ranges across topics from the global heating to The Handmaid’s Tale, with actors Ciarán Hinds and Ann Dowd among the narrators
Book review: Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
“Indeed, the two have a lot in common!” says the author, whose new novel is “The Late Americans.”
In “Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma,” Claire Dederer attempts the impossible task of disentangling herself from the figures whose work has made her who she is.