In my new novel, A Book of Days, a husband is dying slowly. While I was writing it, my own husband died suddenly, with no warning. He died in his sleep, I was told. His children and I hope that …
Farewell to my Princess Diana dog
My dog Maisie bore a striking resemblance to Princess Diana. Looking across at her one evening, she shot me a look and I saw it. With those beseeching big eyes, she was a dead-ringer for the People’s Princess in that …
How grief made me a person
This is an edited extract from Faith, Hope and Carnage, the distillation of more than 40 hours of candid conversation between Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan.
Nick Cave: I do have certain memories of the night Arthur died. Yet when …
Grief made me a person
This is an edited extract from Faith, Hope and Carnage, the distillation of more than 40 hours of conversation between Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan.
Nick Cave: I do have certain memories of the night Arthur died. Yet when I …
Kanye West’s tragic victory
It took me a while to figure out what the first two instalments of the new Netflix documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy reminded me of, this portrait of the artist as a young man trying to get ahead in the …