New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen profiles Inez Holden, novelist and journalist who reported on the Nuremberg Trials and was a friend of George Orwell, HG Wells and Stevie Smith. Show more

New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester compares the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper about teenage boys, love and pain to the Marquis de Sade, and The Ramones' punk gigs. Show more

The story of an orphan made good, narrated by his disabled friend, became a best seller in 1856. New Generation Thinker Clare Walker Gore profiles the novelist and her core themes. Show more

Hirai Tarō (1894-1965) wrote under the name Edogawa Rampo. Having translated Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe he came up with a hero, Akechi Kogorō, fit for a modernising country. Show more

New Generation Thinker Preti Taneja reads the story, by Indian author Mahasweti Devi, of a childless woman forced to become a semi-divine healer saving other people's children. Show more