Books

Tom Overton reflects on the life of a great storyteller with contributions on his art criticism, broadcasting and fiction

The re-release of Allan Sekula’s seminal book critiquing the bond between capitalism and representations of material culture

From Michael Gove to Mary Hurrell to Orange is The New Black, the year in review

A form of mental illness or a cultural norm that has shapeshifted over time?

A report from 'Inside', an Artangel project staged in the Reading prison that once held Oscar Wilde

The second of three articles exploring art, class and precarity: an interview with writer and sociologist Didier Eribon

A new book of photographer Luigi Ghirri's collective writing

Thoughts on John Berger’s prose as he turns 90

A new anthology of writing by Lynne Tillman shows us what narrative fiction, and criticism, can be

The books that have influenced the publishing collective

Donna Haraway takes on the Anthropocene

Following the recent New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, Dan Fox profiles three independent publishers

A new shape-shifting publication by the Milanese collective Gasconade 

Douglas Crimp's new memoir charts his life in the galleries and gay bars of 1970s New York

The final part of this week's Culture Digest looks at two recently reissued books by Eileen Myles

The second instalment of this week's Culture Digest looks at the latest book from experimental Chilean author Alejandro Zambra

The first of this week's three book columns looks at the second instalment of Rachel Cusk's trilogy

The intermingling of classical sculpture and female self-realization in the long literary tradition of the journey to Italy

On Thomas More's wildly influential book, which was published 500 years ago

The long-awaited biopic of cult writer Jeremiah 'Terminator' LeRoy