Merk: Susanna
Trying to erase the biological definition of sex isn’t just misguided – it’s dangerous
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In one sense, old-fashioned feminists like me should be grateful for The Future of Legal Gender, a four-year publicly funded research project. That’s because it makes crystal-clear what is sometimes denied by advocate...
Women’s prize for fiction goes to Susanna Clarke’s ‘mind-bending’ Piranesi
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Susanna Clarke, who published her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 17 years ago and then was struck down with chronic illness, has won the Women’s prize for fiction for her second, Piranesi. Narrated by i...
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is a triumphantly unusual Women’s prize winner
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This year’s Women’s prize produced a notably strong shortlist, led by Brit Bennett’s landmark saga of racism and family in the US, The Vanishing Half; along with Patricia Lockwood’s hilariously barbed satire of intern...
Susanna Clarke: ‘Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman taught me to be courageous in writing’
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The book I am currently readingMark Vernon’s Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey. It’s partly an introduction to the epic and fantastic journey Dante undertakes, but more importantly it’s about re...
This month’s best paperbacks: Susanna Clarke, Claudia Rankine, a biography of Tom Stoppard and more
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If working from home becomes the norm, housing inequality will deepen
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The latest voice to sing the praises of working from home is the Climate Change Committee. It is pushing at an open door: with a commitment to flexible working in the Conservative manifesto, and Labour pushing the gov...
Is Piers Morgan Marmite? Susanna Reid can’t decide
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You are not supposed to be able to avoid having an opinion about Piers Morgan, and on the first edition of Good Morning Britain after his exciting departure, the references to Marmite were thick and gloopy. “Unique is...
Susanna Reid bids farewell to ‘disruptive’ Piers Morgan after GMB exit
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Susanna Reid has told viewers of the first edition of Good Morning Britain after the departure of Piers Morgan that they “disagreed on many things”, including his remarks on the Duchess of Sussex, and described him as...