Tortoise — a different kind of newsroom
Matthew d’Ancona: Le Carré’s last mission
Tortoise — a different kind of newsroom
6 min read · 2020-12-14 · John le Carré was much more than the greatest chronicler of the Cold War. He saw the fault-lines in all that followed – and warned us of them till the end
The New Yorker
The Radicalization of Joan Didion
The New Yorker
~20 min read · 13 saves · From 2017 · She started out a Goldwater conservative. How did she become a voice of the left?
The New York Times
Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest
The New York Times
5 min read · 51 saves · 2020-08-15 · Karan Mahajan · Lessing’s 1962 novel is far from a manifesto. But in its embrace of chaos and split identities, it captures the mood of both its time and ours.
Guardian Books
Crime fiction boom as book sales rocket past 2019 levels
Guardian Books
2 min read · 64 saves · 2020-07-07 · Alison Flood · With bookshops still closed in parts of the UK, sales have surpassed last year’s numbers, with 3.8m print books sold in the last week
