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Ellen Peirson-Hagger

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Ellen Peirson-Hagger

  • Ellen Peirson-Hagger
    Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘I’ve seen a whole system collapse and fade away’

    The International Booker-winning author on ephemera, why her childhood belongs in a museum, and the Brothers Grimm

    Thu, 27 Nov 2025

  • Ellen Peirson-Hagger
    Tove Ditlevsen’s beguiling autofiction

    Fifty years after its publication, the Danish author’s strange but playful final book, Vilhelm’s Room, receives a spirited English translation

    Sun, 14 Sept 2025

  • Ellen Peirson-Hagger
    RF Kuang: ‘I won’t be writing a novel like Yellowface again’

    The Chinese-American author on the terror of Trump, why no party is complete without a whiteboard and how the hell of academia inspired her new book

    Thu, 21 Aug 2025

  • Ellen Peirson-Hagger
    A window on to American decline

    Joanna Pocock’s account of two Greyhound bus journeys, 17 years apart, charts the US’s fracturing society and depleted landscape

    Sun, 3 Aug 2025

  • Ellen Peirson-Hagger
    Claire Adam: ‘I stress all day, then write at night’

    The novelist on growing up in Trinidad and how JM Coetzee’s Disgrace made her a writer

    Sun, 15 Jun 2025

  • Ellen Peirson-Hagger
    Wendy Erskine's memory games

    The Northern Irish writer's witty debut novel The Benefactors is a daring deconstruction of time

    Sat, 14 Jun 2025

  • Ellen Peirson-Hagger
    ‘Translating De Beauvoir is like a puzzle’

    The American writer on Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘feminist Mad Men’, how Lacan helps with boyfriend trouble, and the Annie Ernaux book everyone should read

    Mon, 2 Jun 2025

  • Ellen Peirson-Hagger
    Review: A different woman every day of the week

    Sat, 10 May 2025

  • Ellen Peirson-Hagger
    Rebecca Solnit: ‘I see slowness as a worldview’

    The American essayist on being a tortoise at the mayfly party, her love of nature and why she needs a librarian

    Fri, 9 May 2025

  • Ellen Peirson-Hagger
    The most devastating book you will read this year

    Choice is an illusion for an abused wife in this shocking debut from writer Florence Knapp

    Sun, 27 Apr 2025

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