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Three writers describe the toll taken by loneliness
CHARLES FOST
Kiran Desai’s long-awaited, ‘oceanic’ second novel
Isolation, creativity and faith
Sebastian Faulks was a student when a terrifying episode “severed” his link with reality – an experience that has fuelled his mission to understand psychosis and schizophrenia
Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o
The sixtieth anniversary ‘heritage’ edition of Ariel
L If they’re ever looking to recruit spies, forget handsome, fit, blue-eyed Bonds. Forget gym-buffed Daniel, impossibly good-looking Tom and danger magnet Matt. Look instead for a middle-aged woman in
