Given the amount of critical coverage of the Baileys Prize for Fiction in recent years, the response to this year’s shortlist has been somewhat muted. Which is surprising, writes Eleanor ...
Javier Marías is Spain’s most celebrated novelist and a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Marta Pérez-Carbonell, whose book on Marías is soon to be published by Brill, ...
Javier Marías is Spain’s most celebrated novelist and a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Marta Pérez-Carbonell, whose book on Marías is soon to be published by Brill, ...
Hubert, a graphic novel by Belgium’s Ben Gijsemans, depicts a lonely human finding solace in art but unable to connect to another human, even one as lonely as he is. ...
It didn’t occur to me until last Christmas, as I hugged my family goodbye in Washington’s Dulles Airport, that there might have been a better reason for my mother’s adherence ...
As Penguin announces the publication of a newly discovered Beatrix Potter manuscript, Eleanor Franzén looks at the surprisingly sinister forces at work in the beloved author’s tales. Continue ...
Internet book reviews are a wonderful thing. But if you’re going to write a review, writes Eleanor Franzen, there are a few ground rules that you ought to follow. ...
In the publishing world, only one thing can compete with the excitement of the end-of-year book list: the most-anticipated list. Continue Reading On Culture: Why Publishers Love Lists
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The symmetrical title of Salman Rushdie’s latest fantasia-like novel is a Julian calendar apportioning of the legendary 1001 nights of Eastern lore. Continue Reading 9/11 Fiction and the ...
In this beautiful essay, Stephen Hargadon describes his love of the second-hand bookshop: the thrill of the chase; the smell and feel of the books; the memories contained within. ...
Poles can’t get enough of steamy Norwegian romance novels known as ‘sagas’. What explains their popularity? Continue Reading The Phenomenon of Norwegian Romance Fiction in Poland
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I think a lot of reason that foreign writers are attracted to Japan is that it suits the day-to day psyche of planning stories. It gives you that mental space. ...
Struggling against a city in financial decline and still reeling from the wounds of civil unrest, the Turner siblings are faced with a dilemma. The family home their parents worked ...
Do novels change our experience? Does our experience change the way we read novels? How do the two entwine? We catch up with Ali Smith at the Charleston Literary Festival ...
Love, Sex & Other Foreign Policy Goals, the debut novel by The Thick of It and Peep Show writer Jesse Armstrong, is about a idealistic theatre troupe that travels to ...
Davina Quinlivan investigates the long shadow that Broadmoor casts over the novels of Patrick McGrath. Continue Reading The Red Keep, the Spider and the Dead Explorer
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In the final piece in our Words & Music series, Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff reminisces about the books that have influenced him over the years. Continue ...
Our Words & Music series continues, as Eddie Argos – singer with acclaimed band Art Brut – reveals the influence of Richmal Crompton’s Just William stories on his rock’n’roll persona. ...
The third piece in our short Words & Music series takes a more classical approach, as May Robertson of the Keats Quartet explains the reasons behind their literary name. ...
In the second installment in our Words & Music series – in which musicians talk about the books that have influenced them – Mychal Cohen of Campfire O.K. discusses the ...
