Books

In the author’s debut novel, ‘the threat of a sharp edge is on every page’ 

The authors discuss diary-keeping, photography and motherhood

A statistician and a novelist on the links between dataviz and storytelling

 An exclusive excerpt from her forthcoming book

Renowned poet Joan Retallack reads Adnan’s poetry

Omar Berrada on the artist’s polymathic imagination

Recent events have shown how deeply our lives are enmeshed with those of others – with the potential for both support and harm

A bleak tale of a girl raised in isolation, ‘I Who Have Never Known Men’ takes on new meaning amidst the current wave of lockdown narratives

Before Twitter, Félix Fénéon’s daily ‘novels in three lines’ made a literary art form of current affairs

The critic’s folksy guide, How to Be an Artist, includes some valuable insight on the creative process 

The novelist and poet Robert Glück revisits dream journals left by his late partner, the painter Ed Aulerich-Sugai, whose life was cut short by HIV in the early 1990s 

Juliet Jacques speaks to the pioneering writer and theorist about her new book, ‘Reverse Cowgirl’, an ‘auto-ethnography’ of the self

The translator of the Nobel Literature Prize winner on jet lag, death threats and insomnia in Poland

Learning to survive a jittering feed of survivalist pro tips and transhumanist dreck

‘An Apartment on Uranus’ is about horizons, possibilities, love, desire and alternate spaces of gender-dwelling, written in a time, as the foreword puts it, ‘that has not yet arrived’

The most remarkable thing about ‘The Mysterious Correspondent’ is the way it deals directly with gay and lesbian characters

Awarding the Nobel to a Milosevic apologist, splitting the Booker Prize, and the death of the Western canon’s most ardent defender: what is the political function of literary culture today?

Radical feminist Valerie Solanas is the ambivalent guiding force in Chu’s debut book Females

In ‘All That Beauty’, it’s not a matter of seeing better, or more clearly; it’s a matter of seeing more widely and wildly

‘Walking alone, he denied himself short-cuts in exemplary style’