Books
Red Memory review – the Cultural Revolution up close
In gathering histories from one of the country’s darkest, most divisive periods, the former Guardian China correspondent has created a gripping and important document
Rana Mitter
30, Jan, 2023 @7:00 AM
In brief: Signal Fires; If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal; Love Marriage – review
A thoughtful novel about a family secret, an insightful investigation into animal intelligence and Monica Ali’s clever comedy of manners
Hannah Beckerman
29, Jan, 2023 @3:00 PM
My mentor John Hughes taught me how to write. Then he plagiarised my work | Joseph Earp
In 2022, the acclaimed Australian author was found to have plagiarised whole sentences from Leo Tolstoy and F Scott Fitzgerald. When a former student discovered he was among those greats, his reaction was complicated
Joseph Earp
29, Jan, 2023 @2:00 PM
Brutes by Dizz Tate review – a whip-smart and warped coming-of-age Florida fairytale
A schoolmate’s disappearance is the hook for a slippery debut novel exploring the friendships and futures of a gang of eighth-grade girls
Miriam Balanescu
29, Jan, 2023 @1:00 PM
M Degas Steps Out: An Essay by Philip Hoy review – an artistic encounter across a century
A nine-second 1915 film of the painter Edgar Degas inspires a beguiling meditation on life in Paris during the first world war
Matthew Reisz
29, Jan, 2023 @11:00 AM
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana review – bold, funny and gloriously flawed voices of New York
Fofana’s bravura debut collection of short stories brings the lives of marginalised city folk to life
Hephzibah Anderson
29, Jan, 2023 @9:00 AM
OMG! It’s Jane Austen... the TikTok generation embraces new heroine
Two hundred years on, Austen’s take on the pressures of friendship and love is winning over young readers
David Barnett
29, Jan, 2023 @8:00 AM
‘I knew my son had gone’: Michael Rosen on the moment that changed his life – extract
In this extract from his new book, Getting Better, the author and poet describes the death of his beloved teenage son, Eddie
Michael Rosen
29, Jan, 2023 @8:00 AM
Victory City by Salman Rushdie review – a knotty chronicle of intra-dynastic rivalry
The author’s new novel – a retelling of a fictitious Sanskrit verse saga – employs a kind of autopilot postmodernism, and lacks the verbal gusto of his early works
Anthony Cummins
29, Jan, 2023 @7:00 AM
Never Give an Inch review: Mike Pompeo as ‘heat-seeking missile for Trump’s ass’
The former secretary of state wants to be president. His vicious memoir will sell, but he may not find buyers at the polls
Lloyd Green
29, Jan, 2023 @7:00 AM
Otherlands author Thomas Halliday: ‘Some people have insisted on reading the book backwards’
The paleobiologist and author of Foyles’ nonfiction book of 2022 on Earth’s deep past, the joys of the British Library, and how early four-limbed vertebrates helped him find his feet
Killian Fox
28, Jan, 2023 @6:00 PM
Blake Morrison: Memoirists like me are accused of being mercenary and opportunistic
After writing books about his father and his mother, Blake Morrison swore he didn’t have another memoir in him. Then his sister died, and he couldn’t escape the urge to tell her story
Blake Morrison
28, Jan, 2023 @9:00 AM
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