The poet pays homage to Chekhov in her second collection, in which boredom is both feared and acknowledged and desperation tussles with witLaura Scott’s poetry is clear, illuminating yet not uncomplicated: there is a mystery at its edges, a recognition...
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The cartoonist’s memoir, Worm, considers his life in Cuba, how he came to the US and the dangers of political extremesDid you know Cuba has a Capitol in Havana that closely resembles its American counterpart? Edel Rodriguez does, and that’s one more re...
The Folly Cove Designers were a mid-century all-female collective based in Massachusetts, US. The illustrator and children’s book author Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios provided training to her neighbours in Folly Cove, and the women met monthly to excha...
Sons denounce mothers, students attack teachers: firsthand accounts from those caught up in Mao’s ruthless ideological purge during the 60s and 70sAfter Tania Branigan moved to Beijing in 2008 as China correspondent for the Guardian, she observed the s...
The Booker-shortlisted US author on a life-changing vampire epic and inspiring writing about raceMy earliest reading memoryArnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad Together, in the back of my parents’ car at the age of four or five. We had just come from a booksto...
A young playwright borrows inspiration from the breakdown of her sister’s marriage in a novel filled with hard decisions Playing Games, Huma Qureshi’s fourth book and first novel, could have shared a title with her 2021 short story collection, Things W...
Speaking out for the first time since the cancellation of her award ceremony at the Frankfurt book fair, the Palestinian author sheds light on her work and the power of linguistics and erasureWhen she was a child, Adania Shibli encountered her first st...
A marginalised history is salvaged from real‑life medical records in this strange and glorious novelIf you locked Shirley Jackson and David Wojnarowicz in a room together, they might invent the kind of mouldering dreamworld that Justin Torres conjures ...
An AI program predicts the end of the world in this wobbly rollercoaster ride from the author of The PowerAfter a trio of small-scale novels Alderman hit the big time with her fourth, 2017’s The Power: a global bestseller, winner of the Women’s prize f...
What can the great myths (and the summer blockbusters) tell us about peace? The writer, who has turned to fables all his life, weighs their wisdom – and considers the price he himself has paid for liberty To begin with, let me tell you a story. There w...