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In brief: The Curious Life of the Cuckoo; The Dream Hotel; The Rising Down – review

An extensive hymn of praise to a springtime songbird; a gripping tale of a none-too-distant dystopia; and a history of the land and people of a small part of Sussex

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025

For a stagnating left mired in pessimism, Milton’s radical vision is poetry in motion

The poet-prophet shows us how to sustain hope and redemption in the wake of political defeat

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – candid conversations with friends

The author’s first novel since 2013 – a stately sisterhood saga about a group of women whose lives haven’t turned out quite as planned – continually reframes our understanding of the quartet, practically offering four books for the price of one

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025

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Professor hails 'prophet' Buchan ahead of lecture marking 150th anniversary

HE is regarded as the father of the modern spy novel but John Buchan’s less well-known political views on Scottish nationalism and fascism deserve…

The National (Scotland) · Mar 2, 2025

Author William Boyd explains how Nigerian Civil War experience shaped his work

The novelist, who wrote Jame Bond novel Solo, moved to Nigeria with his family in 1964, three years before the Biafran War began.

Evening Standard · Mar 2, 2025

Colum McCann: ‘I like having my back against the wall’

The New York-based Irish author on being compelled to write about the big issues, his fear for friends in the Middle East and why Frankenstein is a metaphor for our times

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2025

Salman Rushdie out, Dan Brown in: why it’s time to detoxify our middle-class bookshelves

Drop the pretence: instead of parading a love of highbrow literature, just enjoy the books you want to read

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2025

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James Bond nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon

As the Bond franchise heads to the online giant, thriller author William Boyd foresees a slew of spin-offs and says AI is not a threat to human screenwriters

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2025

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – art v reality

The award-winning Australian’s deconstruction of the novel form is a rich pleasure

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2025

I’ve written my last book on boxing. The ring is darker than it has ever been

For more than 50 years I’ve revelled in the epic, electrifying courage of boxing. But deaths, gangsterism and sportswashing have made it much harder to love

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2025

The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – finding the funny side of living with cancer

The comedian reflects on mortality and the new course his life has now taken in this warm account of his cancer diagnosis and treatment

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2025

Get Millie Black: Tamara Lawrance is astonishing in Marlon James’s exemplary Jamaican detective show

With this grisly yet witty thriller, Lawrance’s Millie instantly joins the ranks of greatest ever TV cops

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2025

Jump by Simon May review: a thoughtful salvo in the war on procrastination

Procrastination may be my one true gift. I’m one of those go-getters who, when the going gets tough and a job needs to get done, will find something else to do. Even the smallest thing, like making a cup of tea or providing my child with medication, can be delayed…

Evening Standard · Mar 1, 2025

Anthony Bourdain’s poignant final texts to assistant revealed in new memoir

Chef and author’s assistant Laurie Woolever details her close bond with Bourdain and the final days before his death by suicide in ‘Care and Feeding: A Memoir’

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2025

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The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2025

Joseph Wambaugh, LA cop who wrote 'The Onion Field' and other bestsellers, dies at 88

Bestselling crime novelist Joseph Wambaugh, who mined his own experience as a Los Angeles police officer, has died at 88

The Conversation · Feb 28, 2025

Miss Austen: the TV show about the Georgian writer’s life embraces her love of fiction

At the heart of the BBC’s new series Miss Austen is a fictional Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes). Reviews have stressed that the real life Cassandra’s destruction of her sister Jane Austen’s letters has been considered one of the greatest acts of literary vandalism in history. These letters would…

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2025

I was a cold war courier – the British leftists who smuggled books into the eastern bloc

Letters: In response to an article about a CIA operation, Carl Gardner on tense days travelling to Prague, and David Parker on his father posting letters inserted into the Guardian

Latin Times · Feb 28, 2025

Read Jeffrey Epstein's Black Book As MAGA Fallout Continues

Household names like Michael Bloomberg, Alec Baldwin, Mick Jagger and Richard Branson are in the files. None of them were accused of crimes related to Epstein

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The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2025

Revered in Riyadh but nixed in New York: how The Little Prince (almost) conquered the world

The beloved tale got Turks applauding and Saudis cheering. How will it be received in Britain? We meet the team behind a high-flying, dance-circus rejig

GamesRadar · Feb 28, 2025

The Witcher series' new book offers a blast to Geralt's teenage past dubbed Crossroads of Ravens, and it'll be out in English this fall

The prequel stars an 18-year-old Geralt

The Conversation · Feb 28, 2025

Africa’s newest book prize is named after Andreé Blouin: who was she?

Andrée Blouin was a political activist and writer from the Central African Republic. Until recently, her name hardly ever appeared in the grand narratives of Africa’s liberation.

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2025

Netflix series 'The Leopard' remakes the classic Italian novel as a sumptuous period drama

Classic Italian novel “The Leopard” has been transformed into a sumptuous period piece by Netflix

Marie Claire · Feb 28, 2025

Every Jennifer Weiner Novel, Ranked—From 'Good in Bed' to 'In Her Shoes'

All hail the queen of beach reads!

Newslaundry · Feb 28, 2025

Making sense of ‘middlebrow’ Hindi publications in post-independence India

Exercises in redrawing the contours of the ‘public sphere’, to borrow from German theorist Jurgen Habermas, come with as many possibilities as with risks. This is more often the case when the frames are historical and the gaze is directed at examining the public sphere of an era through a…

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2025

James by Percival Everett audiobook review – reimagining Huckleberry Finn

Dominic Hoffman narrates this satirical, Booker-nominated reworking of the children’s classic, written from the perspective of the enslaved Jim

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