Literature

Immerse yourself in the world of literature with updates on book releases, author interviews, literary awards, and literary events.

How to Pay Attention: On the Value of Stillness and Silence in All Seasons
I’ve Finished My Manuscript, Now What? On Dealing With Post-Book Blues
How Chinese and Italian Opera Helped Her Write and Grieve
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder review – an essential manifesto for change
The Art of Uncertainty by David Spiegelhalter review – a search for sense in probability and chance
The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle review – his best yet
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
The art of an unknown future
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