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This collection of essays and journalism is a poignant reminder of the novelist’s expansive mind, and of what more she might have achieved

Three years after le Carré’s death, his official biographer reveals the adultery that was off limits during his lifetime. Does it further our appreciation of his work?

Spears will read the book’s introduction before actor Michelle Williams takes over

The Slovenian cultural theorist on enjoying books that contradict him, Boots Riley’s hilarious TV series, and his ‘terrifying’ taste in food

It is an old joke in Kerala that the finest writer in Malayalam is Marquez. While many of us read Marquez in English translation (by Gregory Rabassa or Edith Grossman), thousands in Kerala read One Hundred Years of Solitude in Malayalam, as translated by Dr. S. Velayudhan (‘Ekanthathayude Nooru Varshangal’) in 1984. 

“When white supremacy wins these fights, all of our children lose,” professor warns

A posthumous collection of the Booker-winner’s nonfiction shows her lesser-known works to be the equal of her hits

For many, this past weekend's terrorist attacks on people in Israel and the resulting war between Israel and Hamas raises profound questions about the role of the academy in wartime.

Radio drama producer and writer whose novel Poor Lazarus won the Guardian fiction prize in 1969