Books

‘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’

In the Dream House grapples with the ‘bad PR’ of an abusive queer relationship

The newly reissued novel maps the intimate spatial connections between fascism and patriarchy in postwar Austria

A new book wants to understand the individuals – and identities – beneath the ‘somewhat derogatory label’

In ‘Coventry’, events seem to happen to somebody else, to a person Cusk repeatedly exposes and judges

Reckoning with the legacy of Jim Harrison, whose writing portrayed women like meals – meant to give pleasure and comfort, without having any hunger themselves

Like Vivian Maier’s photography, Christina Hesselholdt’s novel embraces digression and relishes humanity in its multiplicity

Diana Hamilton reflects on the dual urges to be beautiful and well-reviewed – even when you want to reject both desires

‘When I read that essay, I literally feel some kind of space opening up: I can breathe’

Talk of the Booker Winning-novel as ‘baffling’ and ‘tough’ suggests such journalists may be more trained in the Burns-ian method than they think

Provincial landscapes mask creeping violence in three new novels by Emma Glass, Sophie Mackintosh and Fiona Mozley 

With his new book How to Write an Autobiographical Novel published today, the writer shares the books that have influenced him

The artist reveals the books that have influenced him 

The books that have influenced Man Booker International Prize winner Han Kang 

The books that have influenced the publishing collective