Books

Dead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes review – a searing ‘sad girl’ tale

The award-winning poet’s debut novel is a barbed, brisk study of a woman’s suffering after an assault

Miriam Balanescu

07, Apr, 2024 @12:00 PM

In brief: The Husbands; The Book-Makers; Meetings With Moths – review

A witty multiverse romcom; chatty erudition about books and printing; and an illuminating exploration of the world of a nocturnal insect

Hephzibah Anderson

07, Apr, 2024 @10:00 AM

White Rural Rage review: Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ jibe at book length

Study of red state resentments that power Trump neglects key factors that help endanger Democrats outside US cities

Lloyd Green

07, Apr, 2024 @9:00 AM

A Necessary Kindness by Juno Carey review – demystifying abortion: an insider’s account of its long and painful history

Eight years working in abortion provision led the author to make this frank and moving case for safeguarding reproductive freedoms – and ending the culture of secrecy and guilt

Barbara Ellen

07, Apr, 2024 @8:00 AM

‘We may lose ability to think critically at all’: the book-summary apps accused of damaging authors’ sales

A tech sector dedicated to boiling things down has raised temperatures in some quarters of the publishing world

Vanessa Thorpe

07, Apr, 2024 @8:00 AM

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch review – from the subway to the gift shop

This new biography describes Haring as a nimble, spontaneous performer and an artist of endearing naivety who was nevertheless corrupted by his popularity

Peter Conrad

07, Apr, 2024 @6:00 AM

Michael Magee: ‘There’s a disbelief at how I’ve ended up’

The Belfast novelist on moving between memoir and fiction in his prize-winning debut, turning down a spot on Granta’s best young British novelists list and why Lords of the Rings was his ‘gateway drug’

Anthony Cummins

06, Apr, 2024 @5:00 PM

Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published

The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawings

Donna Ferguson

06, Apr, 2024 @2:00 PM

‘I’d love a scathing review’: novelist Percival Everett on American Fiction and rewriting Huckleberry Finn

His work triumphed at the Oscars, but the Booker-shortlisted author isn’t interested in acclaim. He talks to the Guardian about race, taking on Mark Twain and why there’s nothing worse than preaching to the choir

David Shariatmadari

06, Apr, 2024 @8:00 AM

The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas review – fiendishly gripping

Dark sexual secrets and lies drive an ingenious and wickedly funny tale of meltdown on a Greek honeymoon

Christobel Kent

06, Apr, 2024 @6:30 AM

‘The crime writer crime writers read’: Garry Disher, author of 60 books and finding fame in his 70s

The Australian author is ‘incredibly influential’, but has had to survive decades of ‘cultural cringe’ and genre snobbery to make finally ‘a decent sort of living’

Susan Chenery

05, Apr, 2024 @11:00 PM

Greg James apologises for suggestion a glass eye would make Roald Dahl Twit disgusting

Promotional video for a Twits spin-off book by broadcaster and his colleague Chris Smith is criticised by charity for the blind

Kevin Rawlinson and Ella Creamer

05, Apr, 2024 @5:29 PM

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