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Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men

Twenty-five years on from her dazzling debut, and as a new collection of essays comes out, we assess the British author’s best books

The novelist, who liked onscreen horror but hated the real kind, compared actual murders and Child’s Play 3

From Sally Rooney’s funny and observant latest to Joseph O’Neill’s compelling Godwin and Sarah Manguso’s gripping portrayal of a broken marriage, these are the year’s most enjoyable novels

Editorial: Tracey Emin is right, women keep on creating into old age. Their work is finally getting the attention it deserves

Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.

Acclaimed author first person to be on honours list after death

Smith was among the famous faces who paid tribute to Amis at his memorial service

The ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ author also told Hay Festival audiences that being a mother is not ‘an enemy to being an artist’