Tom Crewe’s first novel, The New Life, won the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and is out now in paperback. He is a contributing editor at the LRB.
He ‘fell down on my threshold like a wounded stag’, Willie Wilde wrote of the moment his younger brother, Oscar, out on bail after the collapse of his first trial for gross indecency, arrived at the small house on Oakley Street that Willie shared with their mother. The image of the stag – too mannered, too detached – suggests a fundamental failure of sympathy. It was...
Andy Burnham has shown an awareness that the argument for more devolution, for the rebuilding of local government and the rebalancing of the country away from Westminster, goes hand in hand with a critique of Britain’s neoliberal, privatised economy. The British state was unmade by the collapse of the municipal project and can only be remade by its revival.
On 3 November 1876, two days after the unexpected death of his younger brother René, Gustave Caillebotte made his will. He was 28.
It is my wish that sufficient funds be allocated from my estate to finance in 1878, under the best possible conditions, the exhibition of the painters known as Intransigents or Impressionists. It is rather difficult for me to estimate today what the...
Tom Crewe talks to Lorna Finlayson about Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s prospects in the general election and beyond.
William Davies talks to Tom Crewe about politics in the new media age.
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