Quiz: Can You Tell An Author’s Sex?
In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society this week, during which that colossal asshole VS Naipaul provoked fury by suggesting that women writers are ‘sentimental’ and ‘unequal to me’ (including Jane Austen), he also claimed that ‘I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.’ Do you? It’s harder than you might suspect.
