The Latest Breaking News from George Saunders

The road to the Super Bowl goes through Kansas City and Philadelphia for now, but there’s a host of hot teams climbing into contention.

A preview of the NZ-bound writer's novel

After winning the Booker Prize for debut novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, the author returns to the short-story form with new collection ‘Liberation Day’. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about his fascination with Custer’s Last Stand, what John Steinbeck taught him about socialism and learning to embrace uncertainty

The novelist on finding dark farce in his country’s civil war, his grunge band past, and the ‘lottery win’ of the Booker shortlist

CHICAGO — You know how we don’t notice the leaves on the trees until September arrives, nature flips its switch and emeralds become purples, reds and golds? That’s not the worst metaphor for the new fall book season — the big season for publishers (eyeing awards and holiday sales), and…

CHICAGO — Adam Levin left Chicago a few years ago and moved to Florida, and if you don’t think that’s hilarious, you should meet Adam Levin. He grew up in Highland Park, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and for the past decade has been known…

Māori Twitter, "little birds picking up crumbs", and speckled kumara: a conversation between Hawkes Bay writer Shelley Burne-Field and author Colleen Maria Lenihan

George Saunders’s dark, challenging sci-fi story has its edges sanded off in the streamer’s new Chris Hemsworth-starring adaptation. For a company that built its name shaking up an entire industry, Netflix is starting to seem decidedly risk-averse, writes Louis Chilton

The ending of the new Netflix chiller 'Spiderhead' is a bit different from the George Saunders short story it's based on. Here's what it all means.