By Guardian Books · about 6 hours ago
As Emerald Fennell’s film sparks debate, we celebrate the pioneering brilliance of the siblings’ work This was the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed. It was rejected by publishers nine times. Written in the…
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By Guardian Books · about 8 hours ago
Magnusson’s 2017 bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning turned the Scandinavian decluttering practice into a global phenomenon Swedish author and artist Margareta Magnusson, whose book on “death cleaning”…
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By Guardian Books · 1 day ago
As her banned 1989 novella, Women Without Men, is published for the first time in the UK, the Iranian author looks back on a life of resistance and repression As I write this, Iranians around the world are holding…
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By NYT Books · 1 day ago
A new history by Luke Barr chronicles the innovations, excesses and chauvinism of the French chefs who spawned a revolution in cooking.
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By NYT Books · 1 day ago
In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.
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By NYT Books · 2 days ago
After helping his family’s Rite-Aid drugstore empire flourish, he waged a surprisingly close but losing race as a Reagan Republican against Mario Cuomo in 1982.
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By NYT Books · 2 days ago
Charlotte Wood’s “The Natural Way of Things” conjures a not-so-implausible world in which girls and young women are thrown into prison for their sexual shames.
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By Guardian Books · 2 days ago
Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimagine our…
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By NYT Books · 2 days ago
At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.
Read Article →By NYT Books · 3 days ago
Her best-selling book encouraged people to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories.
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By Guardian Books · 3 days ago
Feature generated editing suggestions inspired by well-known authors and academics, prompting a class-action lawsuit over the use of real names without consent Grammarly has disabled a controversial AI feature that…
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By Guardian Books · 3 days ago
The Library of Traumatic Memory by Neil Jordan; The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan; Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison; Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman; Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran The Library of Traumatic…
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By Guardian Books · 3 days ago
The Booker-shortlisted author on a momentous teenage encounter with The Bone People, getting a buzz from Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla, and trying to avoid The Lorax My earliest reading memory Memories from my childhood are…
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By Guardian Books · 3 days ago
These essays from the Nobel literature winner open up her novels and offer beautiful imagery When Korean novelist Han Kang won the Nobel prize in literature in 2024, the committee praised her “intense poetic prose that…
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By Guardian Books · 3 days ago
A Tokyo high-flyer tries to befriend her favourite blogger in a novel that wears its aura of black comedy lightly, and its political statements more heavily Asako Yuzuki’s international bestseller Butter was a taste…
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