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Madeleine Thien, authorLately I have loved Dorothy Tse’s City Like Water, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce. It is an…
I devoured classic novels as a teenager. In a world of distractions, can I relearn how to read them? | Books
It is a privilege to be surrounded by books. My parents hail from the literary working class, a subsection of…
June’s most exciting art books enlist art—and history—as a portal to another time and place, which sounds pretty nice right…
In a speech at the 2026 Pen America Literary Gala earlier this month, the actor B.J. Novak proclaimed: “Reading is…
Obama’s former speechwriter Ben Rhodes examines the US through its 15 most defining speeches | Books
Donald Trump “has proven Jeremiah Wright correct about a lot of things”, said Ben Rhodes, a former speechwriter and deputy…
How Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoons captured America: ‘One of our nation’s greatest journalists’ | Books
In The Simpsons, Bart is always 10, Lisa eight and Maggie a baby. In Peanuts, Charlie Brown and Lucy van…
Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’ | Books
You’ve written books, films, TV shows and plays. Which of your projects do fans most want to talk to you…
A few syntactical tics – and the verdict of an AI detection platform – have sparked a furore over the…
Who’s in, who’s out, and how many have you read? The story behind our 100 best novels list | Books
As Stephen King points out, compiling a list of the greatest novels of all time is an impossible task. King…
Lerone Martin, a prominent scholar of Black religious history, leads the Martin Luther King Jr Research and Education Institute at…
