Book Review: ‘The Absent Woman,’ by Eve Sneider
The first biography of the formidable journalist draws on her archives to expose the complex — and contradictory — human being behind the legend.
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4 New Poetry Books to Bring You the World
In their newest collections, Fady Joudah, Melissa Range, Maya C. Popa and Daljit Nagra survey the world and plumb the soul.
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
Alfa by Lilja Sigurծardóttir; The Lost Spectacular by Zoé Duhaime; Look What the Cat Dragged In by Jason Rekulak; China +100: Stories from a Century After the Outbreak edited by Xueting C Ni; Everything Happens So Much…
The Man With Many Names by Georgi Gospodinov review – playful and profound tales from Bulgaria
This collection of 40 short stories from the International Booker winner is full of invention and warmth In the titular story of Georgi Gospodinov’s short-story collection The Man With Many Names, the narrator reveals:…
Ten Lives by Mona Chalabi review – what if we were totally honest about our wealth?
The data journalist puts her own finances – and those of ten others from across the economic spectrum – under a microscope How much do you earn? If the question makes you bristle – and I realise we haven’t even met –…
‘We are dream-walking into a desperate situation’: the Booker prize winner on his sci-fi alien invasion wakeup call
He is a sci-fi titan but M John Harrison has just exploded into the mainstream – with The End of Everything, an apocalyptic novel set on the Kent coast. Does he really think we have no hope left? With his twinkling…
M. John Harrison’s ‘The End of Everything’ Wins Booker Prize
M. John Harrison’s dystopian tale “The End of Everything” beat out higher profile books by Marlon James, Elizabeth Strout and Douglas Stuart.
Who Is David Walliams, the UK Entertainer Accused of Sexual Misconduct?
The British entertainer rose to fame with the television show “Little Britain” and has published over 40 children’s books.
Book Review: ‘Rome’s Age of Revolution,’ by Tim Whitmarsh
In “Rome’s Age of Revolution,” Tim Whitmarsh argues that movements advanced by Augustus and Paul the Apostle, far from being at odds, were two sides of the same imperial coin.
Book Review: ‘Don’t Stop Snowing,’ by Gabriel Bump
“Don’t Stop Snowing,” by Gabriel Bump, follows a young man through a winter of self-doubt, ruptured relationships and recovery.
Book Review: ‘The Intangibles,’ by Nick Paumgarten
In “The Intangibles,” the journalist Nick Paumgarten traces his long love of hockey from childhood to the beer leagues.
Jarvis Cocker on judging the Booker prize: ‘It’s just like being in a band’
The singer on how being in Pulp prepared him for judging a literary prize, reading 163 books while on tour, and feeling like the odd one out on the panel • M John Harrison becomes the first science fiction author to…
Lessons in Harmony by Jonathan Coe review – what can music tell us about national identity?
The unlikely friendship between French and English composers Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams has inspired a tender and generous novel In 1907, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams confided to the critic Edwin Evans…
Book Review: ‘Murder in Paris ’68,’ by Edward Chisholm
In “Murder in Paris ’68,” Edward Chisholm unspools the seedy murder of Alain Delon’s bodyguard with panache and hard-boiled charm.
M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize
The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 award Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan on M John Harrison’s win: A visionary writer gets the recognition he deserves…