CD Rose: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”
The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today
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Klaus Kinski, wrath of god
Benjamin Myers’ new novel follows the actor trailing both chaos and charisma in one infamous theatre production about Christ
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Jon Fosse’s war on convention
In his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize, the Norwegian author heads a radical counter-movement in publishing that spurns…
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Yrsa Daley-Ward: “How could anyone keep themselves all the way out of a novel?”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on colour as a language, trusting strangeness and how memories revise and rewrite themselves
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Charlie Porter: “Every word is tested”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on active reader engagement, the UK Aids memorial and learning to make pastry.
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Chris Kraus’s autofictional crimes
Is the American writer’s new book, The Four Spent the Day Together, a true-crime novel or a description of her…
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Thomas Pynchon’s lasting triumph
His latest novel borrows too freely from his previous work. But what work it has been
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Jilly Cooper was our national flirt
Novels like Riders made room for pleasure in a literary culture often wary of it
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Ian McEwan and fiction’s problem with climate change
In What We Can Know, Britain has sunk beneath the waves – but literature remains buoyant
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RF Kuang’s descent into the abyss
The American author’s sixth novel struggles to satirise chronic illness and pain.
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There is no contemporary fiction
The novel promises an ending. But world events will not be so neatly contained.
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Katie Kitamura’s study of social dynamics
The novelist coolly examines how we interact with each other in a deeply unsettling story of reversals and doubles.
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How Gatsby deceived America
A century after its publication, the novel’s glory and brutality persist in the national psyche.
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I Want to Go Home But I’m Already There is a document of hellish times
In her debut novel, Roisin Lanigan’s caustic social commentary of renting in London is undercut by supernatural horror.
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As the literary novel fades from relevance, James Graham is the writer for our era
The author of Dear England has channelled the people and events that made modern Britain.
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In Twist, Colum McCann examines what connects us
His thrilling new novel traces the mysterious cables stretching across our ocean beds.
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s everyday dystopia
Never Let Me Go was once dismissed by critics for its “dear-diary” prose, but 20 years later the novelist’s masterwork…
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The death of the British Catholic novel
Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover.
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25 books to read in 2025
From AI to the Beatles and from Pope Francis to Jung Chang, here are the new books to look out…
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Why the novel matters
We read and write fiction because it asks impossible questions, and leads us boldly into the unknown.
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