The best fiction books for 2023
The year’s publishing highlights, including new novels by Salman Rushdie, Diana Evans and Eleanor Catton.
ByImmerse yourself in the captivating world of literature with our collection of articles, offering literary analysis, book recommendations, author spotlights, and thought-provoking discussions that celebrate the written word.
The year’s publishing highlights, including new novels by Salman Rushdie, Diana Evans and Eleanor Catton.
ByI fear my reluctance to read fiction reveals how focused on myself I have become, amid the inwardness of depression.
ByKids are expected to shrug off a daily barrage of sexual and violent imagery – but are seen as too…
BySanitising the writer’s legacy may help him remain profitable – but his books can’t be easily cleaned up.
ByHis life was blighted by poverty, but his poetry made exhilarating connections between sex, faith and death.
ByIn his first interview since the attack on his life, the novelist refuses to be defined as target or victim.
ByHow the novelist hid his cruel side – infidelity, bullying callousness, malice – in plain sight in his fiction.
ByThe Wizard of the Kremlin has provoked fierce debate in France, where support for Russia lingers on both the right…
By9 December 1939: The author was a man who spoke to the child in all of us.
ByTo label her an over-hyped ingenue is to misunderstand her greatest conceit.
ByThe posthumous publication of “Pirate Enlightenment” shows how the anarchist, like any true intellectual, never grew out of his childhood…
ByIs there a correct way to mourn? When my mother died, I scoured the literature of grief for answers
ByThe Shards is the famously morbid author’s latest “trickster book”. He prefers cabinet shopping to culture wars now.
ByThe late Marxist intellectual Gáspár Miklós Tamás captured Europe’s disorientation after the Cold War.
ByIt is right to condemn the writer’s violent chauvinism – but a literature that has lost the power to challenge is…
ByThe travel writer on Paddington Bear, the joy of watching sport, and finding a cure for jet-lag.
ByAlso featuring A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt and a study of conducting by Alice Farnham.
ByA century after the writer’s death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to produce…
ByOur choice of the year’s essential fiction and non-fiction.
ByFrom magical picture books to thrilling young adult novels, courage and joy are in abundance.
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