The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid: A couple’s hilarious Brexit falloutBook review: Marina Lewycka touches on the social issues without being heavy-handedThu Mar 19 2020 - 06:00
Sebastian Barry: ‘We shouldn’t always want to be as grand as Joyce or Beckett’A Thousand Moons author on sequels, criticising other writers and the web of fictionSat Mar 14 2020 - 06:00
Actress by Anne Enright: a writer performing at the peak of her powersBook review: Actress does what novels so rarely do: it shows us both sides of everything, the performance and the realitySat Feb 22 2020 - 06:00
Pickbait: How to Argue with a Racist and How to Be a FascistAdam Rutherford and Michela Murgia take genetic and satirical approaches to raceFri Feb 14 2020 - 06:00
Orwell: A Man of Our Time – A sloppy, disorganised biographyBook review: Richard Bradford’s book tries to do two things at once and fails at bothSat Jan 25 2020 - 06:00
Threshold: a magical mystery tour of mind expansionBook review: Rob Doyle’s new work is a genre-defying memoir-in-essays about taking hallucinogenic drugsSun Jan 19 2020 - 06:00
Essays: Like a course in reading and writing fiction for the price of a bookBook review: Lydia Davis’s collection focuses on English language authors as well as her own writingSat Jan 11 2020 - 00:00
The Other Name: Hypnotic repetition – and no full stopsBook Review: Jon Fosse’s novel is the first two parts of a larger work, Septology, that will be published in three volumesSat Jan 04 2020 - 06:00
Impact of e-readers and audiobooks the decade’s biggest legacyThe Decade in Culture: Technology has changed how we read but the titles we choose follow same trendsSat Dec 21 2019 - 06:00
Fifty Shades, Kanye, Love/Hate: The films, TV, books and music that defined the decadeThe Decade in Culture: The most impactful books, series and performers of 2010-19Fri Dec 20 2019 - 06:00
The Lammisters: Comic novel of linguistic playfulness and inventionDeclan Burke escapes long arm of crime yarns to write meta-fiction set in 1920s HollywoodMon Dec 16 2019 - 00:00
Bernardine Evaristo: ‘If there is no humour, my writing doesn’t work’Girl, Woman, Other author on being funny and sharing Booker with Margaret AtwoodSat Nov 23 2019 - 06:00
Exquisite Cadavers: A surprising, gripping experiment that worksMeena Kandasamy began this book as a response to the critical reaction to her last novelThu Nov 21 2019 - 06:00
Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winnersEvaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for AtwoodMon Oct 14 2019 - 21:54
Booker Prize 2019: The books to read, and the ones you can skipAs Monday's announcement nears, we assess the shortlist and hazard a guess at the winnerSat Oct 12 2019 - 06:00
Nobel literature prize: They promised a new ‘vision’, then went controversial againPrize that seems to court controversy picks Olga Tokarczuk and divisive Peter HandkeThu Oct 10 2019 - 06:00
Girl, Woman, Other: a tale of 12 women and modern moresBernardine Evaristo fillets race and politics in Britain in an innovative and seductive wayWed Sept 25 2019 - 06:00
Martin Amis: all 14 novels rankedAs literature’s oldest enfant terrible turns 70, John Self, who took his pen name from an Amis character, revisits the collected worksMon Aug 26 2019 - 11:30
Rachel Cusk: ruthless and formidable observationsCoventry review: Rachel Cusk's intelligence in writing about everything from literature to parenthood is staggeringMon Aug 26 2019 - 06:00
Seduction and Betrayal and Sleepless Nights reviewElizabeth Hardwick can stand toe to toe with the great 20th century modernistsSat Aug 17 2019 - 06:00
Bina: A Novel in Warnings, a book you must read but can’tBook review: The unreliable narrator of Anakana Schofield’s new book is great companySun Jul 21 2019 - 06:00
Jeanette Winterson’s Mary Shelley is daring, playful and serious funFrankissstein: A Love Story review: Jeanette Winterson’s combines earnest concerns with page-turning energyMon Jun 10 2019 - 06:00
Ordinary People: A love story, a horror, a page-turnerBook review: The climax of the story pulls it in an unexpected direction of sinister happeningsMon Jun 03 2019 - 06:00
Where Reasons End review: Delicate and disquietingYiyun Li’s new novel consists entirely of conversations between a mother and her dead sonSat Feb 09 2019 - 06:00
Gerald Murnane’s strange, unique, uncategorisable novels‘Tamarisk Row’ and ‘Border Districts’ make more traditional novels look very thin indeedSat Feb 02 2019 - 06:00
Evening in Paradise and Welcome Home reviewLucia Berlin displays great succinct style in short stories and memoirSat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima review – Bracing, often breathtakingThe mother finds that as a woman alone in society, people want not so much to help her as to control herSat Apr 14 2018 - 06:00
Feel Free by Zadie Smith review: rich and fascinating essaysCovering a number of topics from art to politics and philosophy – Smith makes sure never to make the reader feel dauntedSat Feb 10 2018 - 06:00
Lincoln in the Bardo review: George Saunders’ Man Booker Prize winnerGeorge Saunders’s first novel focuses on the death of Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie. Despite its highly original conceit it’s his most straightforward fictionTue Oct 17 2017 - 21:00
To Be a Machine review: can technology help us cheat mortality?Mark O’Connell’s exploration of transhumanism and AI is fascinating and disturbingSat Apr 08 2017 - 06:00
Maeve Brennan: The Springs of AffectionWhat makes these stories brilliant is not their cheerful, feelgood qualities. They have the ring of truth, and they hurtFri Jan 06 2017 - 06:00
Green Glowing Skull by Gavin Corbett review: A blizzard of imaginationEbullient charm propels this stylish New York-based novel, says John SelfSat May 09 2015 - 07:23
