Books

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 

From a collection of stories inspired by Franz Kafka to Lauren Elkin’s debut novel, the frieze team chooses its beach reads

How a storied artists’ book publisher placed 1970s conceptual art into the hands of a new generation

The author speaks about the importance of transgression in art and why her latest book is dedicated to the poet Eileen Myles

The author’s latest book on his attempted assassination is a doting memoir about love and the allure of life

From a posthumously published book by Elias Canetti to Lauren Oyler’s latest collection of essays, the frieze team recommend the new books they’re most excited about

In her debut novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey, the writer experiments with form whilst interrogating literary theory and the politics of language