Culture | Speaking in tongues

Why do writers abandon their native language?

Jhumpa Lahiri no longer writes in her mother tongue, following in the literary footsteps of Beckett, Nabokov and Conrad.

By E.W.

Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood in a still from season three of The White Lotus.

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With a little help from your friends


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Xiaolu Guo, a fisherman’s daughter, reimagines the whaling epic with added Taoism


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The battle of the billionaire books

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It is a rare comedy show that has gone global

A century on, Art Deco is as stylish as ever

Minimalist furniture is out; opulent interiors are in