Kevin Breathnach

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Joan Didion: understands that, often, the only way to tell the truth is to be frank about the ways in which you are ill-equipped to do so. Photograph: Neville Elder/Corbis Sygma
Policing the borderlands of fiction and non-fiction
  • Books
  • November 24, 2018, 05:00

Eight or 10 years ago, I started to hear interesting reports from people I know who teach writing. Students, these writers told me, were expressing an(...)

The late British art critic and prize-winning author John Berger, who died aged 90, on January 3rd, 2017. Photograph: Jacob Berger/AFP/Getty Images
Has the age of instant access finally put an end to the critic?

Upon his death earlier this week, John Berger was described by British artist David Shrigley as “the best ever writer on art”. It was not the first o(...)