Books

The celebrated British author on why her new work of non-fiction, ‘Love in Exile’, is her most revealing book yet

In a newly translated collection, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, Ditlevsen's social realism portrays all walks of life

An urgent new book presents a housing vision centred on collectivity and communal living

From an unfinished Danish magnum opus to the latest title by Annie Ernaux, frieze editors list the books they loved most this year

In her latest book, the novelist and essayist considers the use of fiction and literary criticism in times of war and conflict 

To celebrate the recent release of her book, An Image of My Name Enters America, the author shares a list of literary works that have inspired her

Writer and academic Helen Charman’s debut non-fiction book tracks the cultural fixation of mothering in art and literature

Highlights also include Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s debut novel and Peggy Gou's first album 

Ahead of the release of their new publication, ‘Poor Artists’, Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad share a list of the things that have inspired them

From a new collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates to The White Pube’s literary debut, frieze editors choose the best books to sink your teeth into this season

The Nobel Prize-winning writer and the journalist chronicle their affair through shared photography. We revisit their story ahead of its reissue

Other picks include Dionne Brand’s latest non-fiction exploration of intergenerational memory and the long-running London Review Bookshop podcast

The author's metafictional exploration of the romance genre is a satisfying act of sublimation for both narrator and reader

The author’s latest book, documenting an attempt to revive an abandoned cinema in Hungary, teases out the magic charm of film

Other highlights include Beach Sessions Dance Series in New York and Aruna D’Souza’s Imperfect Solidarities

Urbanist Justinien Tribillon's debut book explores the city through its peripheries and histories of urban planning 

The artist’s collected poems are as enigmatic a blend of tenderness and extremity as his performance and visual work

Juliet Jacques revisits books, film and art which commemorate the 40th anniversary of the British miners’ strike and working class politics

The writer’s seventh novel examines social divisions through relationships formed in a 1990s London art world fuelled by power and wealth

The critic’s debut novel uses Lacanian theory as a foundation to explore the relationship between identity, language and desire