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1 month ago | 
thetimes.com | Harriet Alexander |Susie Goldsbrough
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Susie Goldsbrough
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Susie Goldsbrough
Last time, you could feel the fury. When Donald Trump squeaked into the White House in 2016, despite more Americans voting for Hillary Clinton, women marched on Washington in the largest single-day protest in US history, raging against a leader who wanted to grab ’em by … yeah, by that.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Josh Glancy |Tomiwa Owolade |Susie Goldsbrough |Nathan HIll |Nathan Paul Hill
So Donald Trump has won the election. What does his victory tell us about modern America? Should we turn to political polemics or 900-page history books? The literary team of The Times and Sunday Times has a better suggestion. Pick up a novel. Fiction can provide the sharpest insights into the state of a nation. We asked novelists, journalists and US experts to recommend great fiction about the States. You can buy these books from timesbookshop.co.uk, with a discount for Times+ members.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Josh Glancy |Tomiwa Owolade |Susie Goldsbrough |Nathan HIll |Nathan Paul Hill
Is it possible to get to grips with America without trudging through a 900-page history book? Easy, just pick up a novel. As we learn the outcome of the presidential election, we asked novelists, journalists and US experts to recommend great fiction about the States. You can buy these books from timesbookshop.co.uk, with a discount for Times+ members.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Susie Goldsbrough
To some visitors, it is the perfect spot for a New York selfie. To others, it is a reminder of death. The Vessel, a flashy, honeycomb-like structure squatting between skyscrapers on the banks of the Hudson, was closed in 2021 after four people took their own lives by jumping from its open-air stairwells. Since then it has stood empty, a sinister reminder of suicide. Some New Yorkers think it should be demolished entirely. Instead, it reopened on Monday.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
afr.com | Susie Goldsbrough
Susie GoldsbroughOct 10, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Intermezzo, the fourth book by Sally Rooney – the caustic kingpin of Millennial fiction – has sailed with elegant inevitability to the top of the bestseller list.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Susie Goldsbrough
“Sometimes I just have a feeling. Like a sense of being loved by God, almost… Like when I’m with you.”Intermezzo, the fourth book by Sally Rooney – the caustic kingpin of millennial fiction – has sailed with elegant inevitability to the top of the bestseller list. Yet fans of Rooney’s poker-faced poised style may be surprised to realise that while her previous works flirted with faith, her new novel is unabashedly religious.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Susie Goldsbrough
Imagine you’re on the beach, diligently attending to your tan, when you happen to glance up and spot a dark-eyed Mr Darcy. Could this be the beginning of a sultry summer fling, you wonder, taking in the stylish trunks, the hair, the thoughtful New Yorker tote … Hang on, though: what’s that book he’s reading? The one with the aggressively large title in black, ubermensch capitals? Your briefly fluttery heart skids back to normal.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | James Marriott |Susie Goldsbrough |Hugo Rifkind |Harriet Walker
In the weeks before I left home, everyone told me university was going to be fun. “Oh you’ll have a brilliant time,” they said. “Going clubbing, meeting new people, reinventing yourself.” It should have occurred to me that going clubbing, meeting new people and reinventing myself are three of my least favourite things. But with all the credulity of youth I accepted the statement as fact.
