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The author behind ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ and ‘Lapvona’ has collaborated with her husband on a film adaptation of her celebrated debut novel ‘Eileen’. As it hits cinemas, with Anne Hathaway in the role of a mysterious femme fatale, the pair speak to Annabel Nugent

Before My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the author published Eileen, a dark noir about another disaffected woman. As it comes to the screen, she looks back on the extreme reaction to her complex heroine

Stories about flawed young women have been favoured by the publishing industry for some time now. Bad Girl novels proliferated in the wake of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, while Sad Girl novels have evolved from the comic haplessness of Bridget Jones in the 1990s, to more…

A timely reissue for this gem from the archives, in which an ex-public schoolboy makes a gruesome fall from grace

The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told

The Melbourne author’s debut tackles the books industry and the rise of a now-ubiquitous genre – staying one step ahead of the reader along the way

The acclaimed author on her post-Covid novel Lapvona, the influence of Ingmar Bergman and the Brothers Grimm, and the draw of England in the 90s for her next book

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Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Susan Choi and actors John Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker will be among dozens of featured guests at a Philip Roth tribute taking place mid-March in the late novelist’s hometown of Newark, New Jersey

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The new film "Causeway," in theaters and streaming on Apple TV+, centers on two remarkably low-key but nevertheless riveting performances by Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry. The film is the first produced by Lawrence and is also the debut feature for director Lila Neugebauer.