daily life

The next best thing to visiting a really clever friend in New York

18 January 2025 9:00 am

Vivian Gornick’s memoir of life in the city in the 1960s and 1970s is rich in anecdote and dialogues with waspish friends and neighbours

Karl Ove Knausgaard

The urge to purge: it’s closure at last for the tortured Karl Ove Knausgaard

1 September 2018 9:00 am

And so it comes, the final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle sequence: a pale brick of a book,…