How Jacques Testard made Fitzcarraldo a prize-winning literary powerhouse
The publisher on the “arrogance” of the UK books industry and the transformative effect of three Nobel Prizes in the…
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The publisher on the “arrogance” of the UK books industry and the transformative effect of three Nobel Prizes in the…
ByThe author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted Seven Steeples on the pandemic, the death of her father and the role of…
ByThe author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel “there are more things” on revolutionary politics, Margery Kempe and cannibalising colonisers.
ByIn October, around 300 readers arrived in Hebden Bridge for the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival hoping to change perceptions of…
ByAgainst the “imperialism of the absolute” – a personal manifesto on the art of fiction.
ByThe author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Somebody Loves You discusses Antigone, Michaela Coel and putting language over a Bunsen…
ByThe author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Peaces on mongooses, Korean drama and “discipline in the pursuit of chaos”.
ByIn The Passenger, his first novel for 16 years, the great American writer offers a study of living without answers.
ByThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida on an age of political upheaval and bloodshed.
ByIn 1790s Jena a group of thinkers including Friedrich Schiller and Goethe built the intellectual foundations of today’s world.
ByJohn Boyne’s shameless sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas exemplifies a genre that expunges the genocide of its…
ByThe author of Lincoln in the Bardo on US politics, his “limited talent”, and the curse of being seen as…
ByThe author’s portrait of two women growing up in 1980s Karachi exposes the contempt that can often lie beneath love.
By20 May 1977: Almost anybody afloat in a poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s complete works has reason to regret the…
ByHis vexatious, evolving style demonstrates a capacity to face the world as sensitively and honestly as possible.
By24 July 1920: The beautiful, mad drama which I had staged often in the dim recesses of my mind was…
ByWith clinical precision and revelatory intimacy, the French memoirist reinvigorated the art of life-writing.
ByErnaux understands that writing honestly about her parents is a form of betrayal – but she does it anyway.
ByThe late novelist’s extraordinary talent was to take our collective history and make it new.
ByThe author of His Dark Materials has spoken out against “gesture politics” – but he too adds fuel to the…
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