I enjoyed Ferdinant Mount's new novel, The Pentecost Papers, which I reviewed for the @spectator. Out now from @BloomsburyBooks
https://t.co/RdlWpbae3U
Flipped the "red flag books" discourse by asking a bunch of chic authors/lit people what their "green flag books" were – the books you actually want to see on your date's shelves. Includes @mialevitin, @delia_cai, @emmaggarland and this stone-cold banger from @sophiefkemp
📢📢📚 Hiring! 📚📢📢
We're looking for a Senior Publicity Executive to work on a DREAM part of the list, including non-fiction, Faber Editions and literary fiction. Deadline: 28 August 2025.
https://t.co/qBvefRzfNo
'No doubt reflecting a collective subconscious terror of entertaining, literature is filled with disastrous dinner parties'
Mia Levitin (@mialevitin): Bourgeois pretension and rising tensions in three dinner-party novels
https://t.co/ycEOJL0PRC
This week’s TLS, featuring @jamesamarcus and @misbehavingmonk on Mark Twain; Edward Luttwak on ‘Zbig’; Jane Caplan on tattoos; @mialevitin on dinner-party novels; @Bryan_S_K on Stalin and memory; Seb Falk on flight; @irinibus on Christina of Markyate – and much more
We are overjoyed to share that the winner of the @womensprize for Fiction 2025 is Yael van der Wouden with her novel The Safekeep.
Huge congratulations Yael!
We also want to congratulate @lizstroutauthor for her place on the Fiction shortlist with Tell Me Everything!
Loved chatting with Orlaine McDonald about her prize-winning debut, No Small Thing, now out in pb from @serpentstail, for @IrishTimesBooks 🧡
https://t.co/E0WKkLF5LY
We at the Review mourn the loss of Edmund White (1940-2025). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive.
https://t.co/xCooodmkm6
'In literature, as in bed, topicality can stave off intimacy.'
Mia Levitin (@mialevitin) on a state-of-the-world novel set in County Clare
https://t.co/28cHuKlwyK
This week’s TLS, featuring Tom Seymour Evans on Gertrude Stein; @Emily_Baughan on women pioneers in international relations; Colm Tóibín on Pat Steir; @mialevitin on Sarah Moss; Lauren Booker on Rachilde; a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa by David Gallagher – and much more