The TelegraphNowWant to live forever? Be sure to preserve your brainThe TelegraphIt’s 2146 and you’re commuting to your retail job on Mars from one of Elon Musk’s fancy new teleportation machines on Earth. You’re put to sleep; the machine scans the position and other properties of every subatomic particle in your body and brain, and beams the information to Mars, where an …
The Telegraph1 hour agoA story of Berlin, obsession and some unfortunate daddy issuesThe TelegraphIsaac, the impressive debut novel from Curtis Garner, focuses less on the eponymous character and more on the enigmatic object of that character’s desire. Following the bruising loss of his virginity to a man who then vanishes, Isaac meets Harrison, an older man who works as a curator at an east …
The Telegraph18 hours agoAll the ways Vanity Fair messed up the literary scoop of the yearThe Telegraph - Liam KellyWhen Vincenzo Barney, a young, inexperienced writer, brought Vanity Fair the literary scoop of the year, the magazine’s editors must have been thrilled. So thrilled, it seems, that they took leave of their senses and allowed him to write a piece of prose so purple — including claims so bizarre, if …
The Telegraph21 hours agoWhy Russia’s oppression of Ukraine stretches back centuriesThe TelegraphIn the acknowledgements for his new book on Russia’s subjugation of Ukraine, historian Eugene Finkel credits not just the usual rollcall of researchers and editors, but a promising former student of his at John Hopkins University, Victor Muller Ferreira. A bright, diligent graduate, Muller Ferreira …
The Telegraph1 day agoNadine Dorries’s bizarre tale of the Conservative party demise is painful, odd – and a boreThe TelegraphShe has pulled it off! I thought it couldn’t be done, but Nadine Dorries’s political true-crime thriller Downfall is worse than The Plot, published a year ago. In that fantasia about the fall of Boris Johnson, she made the baddies Michael Gove, Dominic Cummings and a party worker called Dougie …
The Telegraph1 day agoThe big British book prize and the battle against righteous protestThe Telegraph - Liam KellyMost years, when Peter Singlehurst takes to the stage at the Baillie Gifford prize ceremony, the template for his remarks to the great and the good of the publishing world has been simple. “Hello. Baillie Gifford loves books. Have a great evening.” As Singlehurst stood up at the lavish headquarters …
