Laura Hackett
@HackettLaura
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Deputy Literary Editor at the Times and Sunday Times / [email protected]
London, England
Joined November 2012
‘A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations … I finished it tear-stained' @HackettLaura @thetimes Read the full review of #DraytonandMackenzie by @StarrittAlex 🌊 https://t.co/xNfg9jY3rF
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Feel very honoured to be a judge -- and in such classy company
Meet the #BGPrize2025 judges - chaired by @thetimes / ST lit ed @RobbieTimes, they are: @UniofOxford lecturer @pratinavanil; biographer and previous winner of the prize @LucyHH; journalist and broadcaster @InayaFolarin; @TheEconomist's Rachel Lloyd; and author @PParkerWriting:
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I reviewed Eimear McBride’s new novel - a moving follow-up to The Lesser Bohemians with plenty of nods to Joyce
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In The City Changes Its Face, the Women’s Prize winner returns to the turbulent relationship of Eily and Stephen, the protagonists of her 2016 novel, The Lesser Bohemians
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Delighted that our illustrator has given me this chic dress - here’s our new fortnightly glimpse into the private reading lives of the Times books team…
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Our critics choose their latest favourites, including a perfect novel for wintry nights, Jeanette Winterson’s take on Aladdin, and a social history of Britain
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So sad to hear about the death of the great poet, Michael Longley. Years ago, I wrote a piece about him for a student magazine - he sent me this beautiful Christmas card with a poem inside
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Romantasy is hotter than dragon's breath at the moment. . . and here's @HackettLaura's review of Rebecca Yarros' Onyx Storm. Enjoy
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Fourth Wing and Iron Flame were huge bestsellers — now the romantasy author is back. What is the secret of her popularity?
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Sat up half the night reading the new Rebecca Yarros book Onyx Storm - here’s my take on the romantasy phenomenon and the novel you’re about to see everywhere
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Fourth Wing and Iron Flame were huge bestsellers — now the romantasy author is back. What is the secret of her popularity?
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David Lodge died this week aged 89. But his great novels live on. @john_self has written a terrific tribute and guide to five of his best novels
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The British novelist, famous for his campus trilogy, died this week aged 89. Here’s a guide to his finest work
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Hello publishers 🙋🏻♀️ We’re putting together our end-of-year “literary non-fiction” list, the category for book lovers. What author memoirs, literary biographies or literary studies have you published this year that we should be thinking about? Thank you!
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And I’ll be speaking to Mark and a whole host of Freud experts tomorrow at the Cheltenham Literature Festival - tickets still available!
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Is Sigmund Freud a relic of the past or a vital part of contemporary culture? I spoke to @Mark_Solms - who has spent 30 years revising and translating the complete works of Freud
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Mark Solms has dedicated his life to revising the complete works of the father of psychoanalysis. His thought still informs our everyday lives, he tells Laura Hackett
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I reviewed Jon Sopel’s dismal new book about “Britishness” for @thetimes
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The former BBC correspondent’s musings on his return to Britain read like they were tapped out in the back of a cab between the office and the East Dulwich semi
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@hugorifkind @GeoffNorcott @jessphillips 📚 At 12pm in the Town Hall, The Times and Sunday Times literary editor @RobbieTimes and deputy literary editor for The Sunday Times @HackettLaura discuss with chair @katemosse about the top 100 bestselling books across the past 50 years
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come for Yoda, stay for the literary criticism
Intermezzo is finally out and so is The Story @thetimes podcast on why Sally Rooney became the great chronicler of awkward millennials with @HackettLaura and @LukeJones 📚 Ft. heartbreak, the perfect linen dress and Yoda. 🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/ckDkqltE7C
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Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo is out now! 📚 What did The Times and The Sunday Times' Deputy Literary Editor think? Listen to the full review now on The Story ⬇️ 🎙️The Story podcast 🗣️@LukeJones | @HackettLaura
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Intermezzo is finally out and so is The Story @thetimes podcast on why Sally Rooney became the great chronicler of awkward millennials with @HackettLaura and @LukeJones 📚 Ft. heartbreak, the perfect linen dress and Yoda. 🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/ckDkqltE7C
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I wrote about the sexual politics of Sally Rooney - why her female characters, in normal life so spiky, become submissive in the bedroom - and whether that matters
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The author’s fourth novel Intermezzo is perhaps her most erotic yet but why are her right-on female characters so submissive in bed?
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I reviewed Sally Rooney's new book Intermezzo. I think she has immense novelistic talents but I found the new book moralising and pretentious in ways that not easy to ignore. https://t.co/7xTrXniU8N
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The protagonists in the Irish author’s new book are sensitive, cultivated, highly intellectual and have great sex. But do they have to be so precious and prissy?
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I wrote about the generation of young women who have grown up with Sally Rooney’s novels - and whether the novels have grown up too
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The author burst on to the literary scene in 2017 and garnered an army of young female fans. Now, in her new novel Intermezzo, the characters are growing up — and, says our writer, so are we
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