Katherine Cooper
26 November 2025
The book from 1939 that reads like breaking news
Leonard Woolf’s The Barbarians At The Gate warns that tyranny begins not with tanks in the streets, but with compassion being turned off in the public mind
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The goddess of small things
Avant-garde writer Claire Louise Bennett’s new novel is an otherworldly hymn to minutiae
Read the full article08 October 2025
We need bell hooks more than ever
As Trump tries to claim the arts for his elite, the Black feminist trailblazer makes the case for them belonging to everyone
Read the full article03 September 2025
Irene Solà’s whispering tales of devils and lost souls
Four generations of women inhabit a landscape of wolves, fascists and devils in the Catalan writer’s haunting novel
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Taking a tour through the sidestreets of your mind
A book that goes from Berlin to Bogotá on a hallucinatory walk through space, time, and memory
Read the full article16 July 2025
Anthony Bourdain’s raw meat, well done
Eight years after his death, a reissue of Kitchen Confidential still burns with wit and rage
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