Tag: books
Refreshed prince: Will Smith launches Fresh Princess children’s books
Actor says stories about the youngster, inspired by his TV role as the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, will be ‘fun and empowering’Will Smith would like you to take a minute, just sit right there, to ready yourself for the arrival of Destiny, a young black gi…
Golden-age stars and scabrous gossip: the best books about Hollywood
Ahead of the Oscars, the Guardian’s film critic shares his favourite books on the dream factory, including David Niven, Zadie Smith and Rose McGowanThe Oscars approach in the more thoughtful mood created by #TimesUp. These days the awards are a more su…
Benedict Cumberbatch to play Satan in Neil Gaiman fantasy series Good Omens
Sherlock star will voice a ‘giant animated Satan’ in the drama, which will also feature David Tennant, Michael Sheen and Frances McDormandBenedict Cumberbatch is set to follow up his role as Brexit architect Dominic Cummings by playing another famously…
Top 10 genre-twisting novels | Alan Trotter
From Cervantes’ warping of chivalric romance to Flann O’Brien’s narrative games, novelist Alan Trotter picks his favourite convention-smashing talesGenre focuses our attention in such a way as to make some stories seem possible, even inevitable, while …
‘It destroyed me, in a good way’: the best books about modern romance
Adulterous, drug-addled, digitised … the many shades of romance are celebrated by author Emma Jane UnsworthThe first time I read Carol Ann Duffy’s collection Rapture, I finished it, took a breath, and read it again. I had rarely encountered anything so…
We rush to condemn fakers such as Dan Mallory but the world has made impostors of us all | Rachel...
The reaction to the exposure of the bestselling American author as a serial liar reveals more about our own insecurities than his duplicityWhat’s the difference between something going viral and a storm in a teacup? Not an awful lot, it often seems to …
The best new books for Black History Month
From Marlon James to Toni Morrison, a series of books provide invaluable reading matter for the month aheadProviding a much-needed polemic on the current climate, Toni Morrison’s collection of writings and speeches focus around the themes of responsibi…
Grammar Guru Benjamin Dreyer Talks Twitter Style, Denounces ‘Onboarding’
Random House copy chief and managing editor Benjamin Dreyer is a fixture in the publishing industry and on Twitter for his authoritative yet approachable take on style and grammar. Now he is a Random House author himself, an officiall…
Everything Wrong With Trump’s America Was in Steven Seagal’s Only Novel
It’s strange to talk about Steven Seagal in 2019. In 1988, when he broke into Hollywood swordfighting bad guys in driveways? Sure. In 1991, when he was arguably the worst host in the history of Saturday Night Live? Okay. In 2006, when…
Second AJ Finn novel on way despite Dan Mallory scandal, says publisher
Revelations that the author of The Woman in the Window lied repeatedly about having cancer have not dissuaded HarperCollins from publishing a followup Dan Mallory’s publisher HarperCollins has said that it intends publish a second novel by him, despite…