Best December reads
The National, December 2017 It’s that time of year when the sheer amount of awards, end-of-year round-ups, gift ideas and seasonal treats can send the casual book buyer into paroxysms of indecision – not least […]
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Steven Moffat: Doctor Who is the greatest show ever
The National, December 2017 What’s the greatest television show ever made? It’s the kind of thorny question you can just imagine being thrown around festive dinner tables this week as people open box-sets of […]
Fiona Mozley on writing a Yorkshire Western
The National, November 2017 It is the moment that all authors, actors, directors and artists must dread. The point when the glittering award-ceremony cameras zero in on their hopeful faces before that momentous, life-changing […]
Nabihah Iqbal is after Something More
The National, November 2017 When the reviews start coming in for Nabihah Iqbal’s shimmering debut album of hazy, guitar-inflected synth-pop, there will be plenty of critics – and fans – trying to count the reference […]
The rise of Lang Leav and the Instapoets
The National, November 2017 It’s not so long ago that writers, publishers, readers and critics alike were bemoaning contemporary poetry’s inability to cross into the mainstream. It wasn’t dead, so much as moribund. But try […]