Literature

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

 ‘We have lost one of the best and greatest of us,’ Keene writes. ‘She helped us to see and become ourselves, to put pen to paper and language to our lives.’

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

Fifty years ago, when a lump of extra-terrestrial iron fireballed towards Belfast, a stampede of street kids stopped in their tracks

In My Mother Laughs, Akerman’s pain while watching her mother’s health worsen becomes entwined with the shock of heartbreak

Her lyrical, haunting novel Celestial Bodies exposes the global forces that preclude literary value from flowing in both directions

On the emergence of transgender literature

‘At the first site, the freedom of the United States of America is honoured; at the second, the history of its immigrants is conserved’

Storms arise, the boat pitches and rolls, passengers are literally and figuratively tossed together

A Nobel Prize-winning writer, a misogynist, a small-town boy with a haughty, big-city gaze: Naipaul’s life was marked by a sense of doubleness

The continued dominance of UK-US writers makes a mockery of the Man Booker’s ‘global outlook’

The frieze columnist's first novel is an homage to, and embodiment of, the late, great Kathy Acker

Publishing elegant, peculiar studies in fine attention and finer craft, how the small London press is producing some of the best writing around

The poet on the ‘strange portability’ of life on the road 

The novelist explored Jewish identity in the US through a lens of frustrated heterosexuality

The US writer, who died last week, brought a quality of inestimable importance to the modern novel: a mind that was wholly in tune with the times

Homages to the writers and friends at Tate St Ives and Turner Contemporary pay tribute to their affection for the sea as a cipher for the self

Before ‘fake news’ and the turn against Facebook, painter David Salle remembers a book that predicted how the media sphere would shatter

As the Man Booker Prize debates whether to nix US writers, the ‘homogenized future’ some novelists fear for British literature is already here