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Author Malavika Kannan Is Being Hailed As a Voice of Gen Z. These Coming-of-Age Novels Shaped Her

She shares the reading list that inspired her must-read collegiate novel, 'Unprecedented Times.'

Marie Claire · Aug 18

11 Books About Forbidden Love to Read If You're Spending Valentine's Day Yearning

In these classics and contemporary, complex romances, the heart wants what the heart wants.

Marie Claire · Feb 13

Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is more complicated

IN FOCUS: As debates over the ‘disappearing’ young male novelist rumble on, some authors and critics push back against claims that fiction has closed its doors to men. Hannah Ewens learns that the real problem is less about publishing and more about a wider societal issue

The Independent UK · Nov 25, 2025

Entitlement by Rumaan Alam review – the American dream gone wrong

A woman is beguiled by wealth while her billionaire employer aims to give his fortune away, in a propulsive exploration of money and race

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2024

Five of the best psychological thrillers by women

These electrifying novels that dig into the peculiar, dark depths of the human psyche will have you questioning who to trust

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2024

Where to start with: Ottessa Moshfegh

The American novelist has created an oeuvre of medieval gross-fests, 60s psychological thrillers and hallucinatory evocations over five novels and one short story collection

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2023

2023's Most Mysterious Thriller Is One of the Best Noir Movies of the Decade

Anne Hathaway seduces Thomasin McKenzie in a noir that sweeps you up in its twisted delusions. Read our review of 'Eileen.'

Inverse · Dec 1, 2023

Eileen review: Anne Hathaway seduces and beguiles her way through a twisty thriller

Thomasin McKenzie co-stars in this ice-cold noir in which two mysterious women let their lust draw them towards disturbing fates

The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2023

Eileen movie review: desire runs riot in this Ottessa Moshfegh adaptation

Eileen is the drabbest of them all... until glamourous new prison psychiatrist Rebecca comes swanning into town, that is

Evening Standard · Nov 30, 2023

Eileen review – Anne Hathaway is vehement in solemnly intense psycho-noir

Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel becomes a disappointing movie, unable to decide if it’s a thriller or a dark comedy, though Thomasin McKenzie and Hathaway give it their all

The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2023