Joyce Carol Oates contradicts herself
How can the author of 100 books have “no personality”?
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Emma Cline and the perverse silence of dying
Cline’s new novel Switzy follows a wealthy man’s last days as he heads to a euthanasia clinic
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Patricia Lockwood: “You know how women marry their dads? I married my mother”
The poet and novelist on judging the Booker and America’s insanity
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Possessed by Edgar Allan Poe
Poe’s work owes its greatest debt to his unconscious, where his deepest anxieties lay
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Medieval masculinity under the microscope
Rebecca Perry’s May We Feed the King asks how much stillness a novel can hold
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The Goldsmiths Prize 2026 shortlist announced
This year’s six-person shortlist for the £10,000 award for fiction that “breaks the mould” is led by established writers from…
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What was Charles Spencer thinking?
In Swan Song, Diana’s brother claims to speak on her behalf – but his book shows how little he understood…
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My cellmate, the Nazi
A Polish resistance officer shared a jail cell with the Nazi who liquidated Warsaw’s ghetto – and memorised every word…
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