Zadie Smith's Top Books: A Ranking from White Teeth to Swing Time
8. The Autograph Man (2002) After the massive success of White Teeth—which famously sold for a six-figure sum while Zadie…
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Review of "Nobody’s Girl" by Virginia Roberts Giuffre: A Harrowing Account of Power, Corruption, and Abuse
In her memoir “Nobody’s Girl,” Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an activist and survivor of Jeffrey Epstein who died by suicide in…
I was endlessly scrolling through my phone until a simple daily habit rekindled my passion for reading.
As a child, I devoured books until my eyes grew blurry. When my GCSEs arrived, I had the focus of…
Navigating a good life during challenging times: A discussion with Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart, and Maria Ressa
When a world-renowned historian, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist, and a former politician come together to talk about the state…
Kiran Desai: 'I never expected this to occur in the US.'
Not long after novelist Kiran Desai published her second book, The Inheritance of Loss—which won the Booker Prize in 2006—she…
Mona Awad, author of Bunny, says: "I have a dark mind."
Mona Awad was trying on a forest-green dress with a deer pattern when she realized the characters from her 2019…
From a new Thomas Pynchon novel to a memoir by Margaret Atwood: the season's most anticipated books.
Fiction Helm by Sarah Hall Faber, out now Sarah Hall is best known for her brilliant short stories, and this…
Banned! The 20 books they tried to keep from you
It might be tempting to think of book banning as a thing of the past, a relic of less enlightened…
Top crime and thriller books – latest reviews
Here are the book reviews rewritten in fluent, natural English while preserving the original meaning: A Particularly Nasty Case by…
Bright ideas for the future: Why hopeful climate fiction matters
Nearly 25 years ago when I published my first novel, Haweswater, about the effects of dam construction in northwest England,…