Anita Brookner by Hermione Lee review – an enigmatic literary great given her due This exhaustive biography of the Booker winner brings her properly out of the shadows for the first time The Guardian - UK · Sep 1
Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’ The author on Anna Karenina, the brilliance of Anita Brookner and finally getting Nabokov The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2025
Novelist Rumaan Alam: ‘A lot of people have secret money – it can make you crazy with envy’ His pandemic bestseller Leave the World Behind was made into a starry Netflix movie. Now the author is turning the spotlight on wealth. He talks about success, parenthood – and the mania of trying to make it in New York The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024
Hari Kunzru: ‘I am just as enchanted by The Great Gatsby now as when I first read it as an A-level student’ The British novelist on rereading the classics, his teenage love of outsiders, and discovering the brilliance of Anita Brookner The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2024
‘Leaving home used to be a rite of passage’: Andrew O’Hagan on family, freedom and a generational divide The Scottish novelist moved out as early as he could. His son says he might never leave. Do young people still want to flee the nest, he asks, and what happens when a population comes to maturity feeling ‘made’ by their parents? The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2024
Tim Hilton obituary Journalist, biographer of John Ruskin and brilliant art critic who wrote for the Guardian and Independent on Sunday The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2024
‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin Amis The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2023
Top 10 books about solitary living Finding your way without the social template of romantic love is a tough challenge, but writers from Deborah Levy to Hanya Yanagihara offer clues to how it can be done The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2023
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes review – a roman à clef with a key that’s hard to find Barnes experiments with narrative – and the reader’s patience – in this literary, in-joke-filled story of a man obsessed with a female lecturer on culture The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2022