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Sep 14, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Tom Crewe |George Orwell |Justin Torres |Andrew O'Hagan
The novels that made the 2024 shortlist are listed below. Comments are from the prize’s judging panel, which in 2024 was chaired by Alexandra Harris, and also included Lara Choksey, Ross Raisin and Simon Okotie: Blackouts by Justin Torres is a formal masterpiece, creating its own zone beyond the story it tells: a redacted history of queer sexology via an intergenerational deathbed dialogue.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | John Lanchester |Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |Tom Crewe |James Butler
John Lanchester, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Tom Crewe and James Butler Your browser does not support the audio element. John Lanchester, Tom Crewe and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite join James Butler to dissect Keir Starmer's victory and the historic collapse of the Conservative Party.
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May 10, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Tom Crewe |Kevin Jared Hosein |Joseph O'Connor |Kai Thomas
recommended by Katharine Grant WINNER OF THE 2024 Walter Scott Prize for historical ficiton Hungry Ghosts: A Novel by Kevin Jared Hosein The judges of the Walter Scott Prize aim to highlight the very best new historical novels, and in 2024 they have settled on a varied shortlist featuring a Trinidadian tragedy, a Vatican-based thriller, and a charming coming-of-age tale from 1960s Middle England. We spoke to Katharine Grant, chair of the judging panel, to find out more. WINNER OF THE 2024...
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May 1, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Tom Crewe |Thomas Jones
Tom Crewe and Thomas Jones Your browser does not support the audio element. James Pratt and John Smith were the last men to be hanged in England for the crime of sodomy, reported to the authorities by nosy landlords who later petitioned for clemency. Tom Crewe joins Thomas Jones to explain how exceptional – and unexceptional – the case was.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Chris Bryant |Tom Crewe
It is not a coincidence that the quality of writers in Parliament has declined along with the quality of the political class – most of its contemporary representatives are poor at speaking and reasoning, with no sign of what Denis Healey called a ‘hinterland’ – and that this has been simultaneous with a collapse in respect. Is Chris Bryant an exception?
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Tom Crewe
‘Women have always written about men,’ Jane Miller remarks in Women Writing about Men (1986),but they have needed to be extremely circumspect about doing so. To read as a woman is to confront that circumspection as a mode of being and a kind of language … Of course, I too want to hear what women writers have been telling us about women. I am almost certain, though, that it will be easier to know what this is if we first attend to what they have distinguished as male.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
waterstones.com | Tom Crewe |Noreen Masud |Momtaza Mehri |Michael Magee
The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award 2023 WinnerIt is our great pleasure to confirm Tom Crewe as the winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award 2023 for The New Life.
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Feb 10, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Tom Crewe
Oscar Wilde always imposed. Meeting him in 1892, the French writer Jules Renard reported: “He offers you a cigarette, but selects it himself. He does not walk around a table: he moves the table out of the way … He is enormous, and carries an enormous cane.” The affectations of dress and manner; the extraordinary, magnetic talk; the flourished epigrams; the startling, needling essays, stories and plays – all these were impositions.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
standard.co.uk | Luke Hall |Sean Hewitt |Lotte Jeffs |Tom Crewe
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Two Women Dancing at the Moulin Rouge, 1892Henri de Toulouse-LautrecValentine’s Day is fast approaching so thoughts of love may well be top of mind. Be it the love we feel for our partners, or friends, or the love we hold in place for ourselves – there’s a whole lot of love to explore. Yet, for the queer community, it isn’t always as simple as picking up the latest Kinsellainstalment to find depictions of love that we see ourselves reflected in.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Tom Crewe
When we happen across a gay man in the 19th-century novel, we do just that. We are made suddenly aware of him, standing in sharp relief against the busy background, apparently having very little to do with it. Usually, we see him just for a moment. Often we do not trust ourselves: we do a double-take. Occasionally, there is a flash of recognition.
