I’ve probably been working on the same 70 or 80 poems for the last 15 or 20 years, and someday I’ll put out a book of poems. In the meantime, I take them out and revise them about 9,000 times.” It’s ...

Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of ...

The first-time director tells me how he made his explosive adaptation of August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson' his own ...

Peter Halley, born in 1953, is a prominent American artist recognized as a key figure in the Neo-Conceptualist movement that emerged in the 1980s. Renowned for his vibrant Day-Glo geometric paintings, ...

In opening the floor to Chomsky, Elders sets the tone for the entire debate by way of framing it’s opening exposition in a ...

The author’s new work, We Who Wrestle With God, leads us through the history of Western faith and eventual creation of a ...

A lack of privacy has made people’s personal and public lives less meaningful.

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They haven’t said whether it’s a remake or not, and perhaps they’re not sure themselves yet, but they’ve also confirmed that controversial series creator Michel Ancel is involved to ...

Michel Houellebecq’s skills as a stylist don ... But I trust his sarcasm, more than his mysticism, to free us. When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week include histories of corporate mismanagement and misbehavior in the 19th century (“Savings and ...

So says Michel Houellebecq in his final novel ... The accepted narrative is that Houellebecq, whose books are populated by depressed and transgressive men seeking comfort in sex and disaffection ...