Writers have long been fascinated by machinery – what it gives and what it takes away. Tom McCarthy, whose experimental work has been hailed as the future of fiction, charts literature’s complicated relationship with technology, at once beautiful and menacing Continue reading

The Marxist provocateur and bestselling philosopher on communism, poststructural theory and his reluctance to play poster boy for the fashionable European left Continue reading

The novelist introduces an excerpt from his new memoir with a meditation on the fragile building blocks of our lived experience

Read an excerpt from Teach Us to Sit Still by Tim Parks

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