Jenny Diski, who has died of cancer aged 68, was a writer for whom no subject was taboo. Her remarkable first novel, Nothing Natural (1986), about a sadomasochistic affair, was feted and damned in ...

Prolific novelist and essayist who wrote a regular column about her diagnosis with inoperable cancer for the London Review of Books, has died The author Jenny Diski, who had been writing a serialised ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter As I walk away from Jenny Diski's house it suddenly strikes me that, during the two hours we spent together, she didn't light up. Not ...

People talk about writing as though it were a mysterious thing. "When did you realise you were a writer? Where do you get your inspiration from?" These are not questions you ask your local butcher, ...

What is meant when a person is deemed ahead of her time? It sounds like a fantastic compliment, yet the circumstances under which people hear it, in reference to themselves, are not always so positive ...