Spectrum
Online pile-ons and culture wars: how did we get here?
Philosopher A.C. Grayling dissects the evolution of cultural warfare and makes a sensible, if optimistic, case for an armistice of sorts.
- Pat Sheil
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Torrey Peters went off-grid and came back speaking lumberjack
And she doesn’t just talk the talk. Peters can walk the walk, or in this case, fell the trees.
- Melanie Kembrey
Cole Haden is the queer indie frontman of your dreams
The charismatic leader of noise rock darlings Model/Actriz gets vulnerable on the band’s fantastic new album, Pirouette.
- Annabel Ross
What happens on the way to opening night? It’s quite a drama
S. Shakthidharan thrilled us with Counting and Cracking. Now, as his new play, The Wrong Gods, makes its world premiere, rehearsal diaries relive the highs and lows.
Sex kitten Emmanuelle returns as a sad product of modern sexuality
In a feminist retelling of the steamy 1970s hit, online porn has left people lost and lonely. Its star reveals why the story hit home.
- Stephanie Bunbury
A Booker winner, a comedy and Hitler’s obsession with Einstein
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.
- Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
A century on, this Great American Novel still captivates readers
F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is said to contain some of the most perfect sentences ever written about America.
- Jane Sullivan
This hotly anticipated novel explores the dark embers of the psyche
In the third instalment of her fictional triptych, Katie Kitmaura wields her words with scalpel-like precision to explore the demands women are “expert at negotiating”.
- Jessie Tu
Tom Hanks’ daughter reveals a childhood marred by abuse at the hands of her mother
E.A. Hanks’s memoir re-creates a road trip she once took with her late mother to seek answers to what was an “incomprehensible” childhood.
- Nathan Smith
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