Valerie Grove
You Must Remember This
“Whenever I crop up in someone’s reminiscences, I find their memory irritatingly fallible”
Laurie Lee’s Ladies
Uncovering the truth from the author’s legend
Unhappy Families
Completion is a dazzling debut by a promising young novelist
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past