The Guardian (Literature)

A Kid from Marlboro Road by Edward Burns review – the most Irish-American novel of the year
A Beginner’s Guide to Dying by Simon Boas review – an extraordinary book
All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – poignant meditation on masculinity and alienation
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney review – is there a better writer at work right now?
Isabella Hammad: ‘I heard Edward Said speak when I was seven’
Something Lost, Something Gained review – Hillary Clinton still plagued by what could have been
‘People should be making their contingency plans, like, right away’: America’s leading forecaster on the chances of a Trump win
‘I no longer have to save the world’: Novelist Richard Powers on fiction and the climate crisis
The Haunted Wood: a History of Childhood Reading by Sam Leith review – young at heart