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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: a remarkable new voice on issues of race in America
Friday Black review: a bracing, ultramodern debut collection

An epigraph from Kendrick Lamar, virtual reality games for racists, genetically engineered children and a world where a white man can take a chainsaw (...)

Visitors read signs posted in the dense woods of the Aokigahara forest in Japan.YouTube says it has removed blogger Logan Paul’s channels from Google Preferred. Photograph: Atsushi Tsukada/AP Photo
YouTube instafamous changing rules of celebrity creation

On December 31st, YouTube celebrity Logan Paul posted a video to his hugely popular channel from a trip to the Aokigahara forest in japan. Also known (...)

Novels by Elena Ferrante: The apparent revelation of Ferrante’s identity prompted a widespread backlash that questioned whether the age-old practice of using a nom de plume ought to be subjected to such scrutiny. Photograph: Chris Warde-Jones/The New York Times
Italian reporter ‘discovers’ identity of writer Elena Ferrante
  • Europe
  • October 3, 2016, 15:35

An Italian investigative journalist claims to have solved one of modern literature’s greatest mysteries – who is Elena Ferrante? Ferrante is the best(...)

Ill-judged narration: Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh
Radio: Scandalous tales from the past point back to the present

It was a time when, to coin a phrase, we all partied. The capital was notorious for its conspicuous consumption, with money pumped into showpiece p(...)