Books
Ocean Vuong: ‘I don’t believe a writer should just keep writing as long as they’re alive’
The award-winning poet and author on bringing his career to a meaningful end, processing the death of his mother via verse, and his love of mixed martial arts
Kadish Morris
03, Jun, 2023 @5:00 PM
Utah school district that banned Bible considers removing Book of Mormon
Davis school district says it will assess text after complaint for ‘pornographic or indecent materials’ under law passed last year
Oliver Milman
03, Jun, 2023 @3:22 PM
Brandon Taylor: ‘Writing is the most fun I’m capable of having’
The American author talks about growing up queer in a family of ‘wolves’, poverty and class in the US, and the 19th-century writers who inspired his latest novel
Alex Needham
03, Jun, 2023 @10:00 AM
All the rage: the rise of the menopause novel
Self-help shelves are filled with guides to surviving midlife, but where is the fiction? Lisa Allardice talks to Marian Keyes, Joanne Harris and others about ‘hot-flush lit’
Lisa Allardice
03, Jun, 2023 @8:00 AM
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong review – a masterpiece of Korean history
This epic political novel traces the country from Japanese occupation through partition, as experienced by a family of railway workers
Maya Jaggi
03, Jun, 2023 @6:30 AM
‘If the plane breaks down, it’s just you’: the pressure and awakening of one city GP in the outback
Dr Sonia Henry was looking to escape her Sydney life when she signed up to work in remote hospitals. What she encountered was amazing beauty – and terrible suffering
Neha Kale
02, Jun, 2023 @3:00 PM
Sad Girl Novel author Pip Finkemeyer on critiquing sad girl novels: ‘It has to have a heart’
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
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
02, Jun, 2023 @3:00 PM
Author Ama Ata Aidoo, ‘an inspiration to feminists everywhere’, dies aged 81
The Ghanaian playwright and novelist, who also served as her country’s education minister, focused on the modern African woman
Sarah Shaffi
02, Jun, 2023 @1:34 PM
Caster Semenya to publish ‘unflinching’ memoir with Stormzy’s #Merky Books
In The Race to Be Myself, the Olympian athlete will detail her battle for permission to compete as a woman with hyperandrogenism
Sarah Shaffi
02, Jun, 2023 @12:52 PM
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy audiobook review – love across the sectarian divide
Actor Bríd Brennan narrates this debut novel about a dangerous love affair between an Irish Catholic teacher and a Protestant lawyer
Fiona Sturges
02, Jun, 2023 @11:00 AM
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing by Scott J Shapiro – hacking for beginners
A fascinating history of cybercrime, from teenage pioneers to international bot armies
Dorian Lynskey
02, Jun, 2023 @8:00 AM
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan review – sharp-eyed follow-up to Exciting Times
Marriage is a dare and coupledom is complicated in this perceptive take on modern love
Rebecca Liu
02, Jun, 2023 @6:30 AM
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