Sally Rooney

Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

Alex Blasdel

09, Nov, 2023 @5:00 AM

Top 10: good sex in fiction

Never mind heaving bosoms and whimpering grunts, some writers – from Sally Rooney to DH Lawrence – depict genuine, sometimes graphic, intimacy in all its forms

Cleo Watson

19, Jul, 2023 @1:03 PM

Nobel literature prize fell into my life ‘like a bomb’, says Annie Ernaux

In conversation with Sally Rooney at Charleston festival author says award has hindered her ability to focus on writing

Amy Raphael

29, May, 2023 @4:21 PM

Amis, Hitchens and Larkin: bad behaviour and a messy personal life were once a gift for authors. Not any more | Martha Gill

Flaws used to feed their sales but now writers are expected to be saints

Martha Gill

27, May, 2023 @5:31 PM

The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan review – less love triangle, more sex pentangle

The Irish writer’s follow up to Exciting Times is amusing and sympathetic about romantic fickleness – if not as spiky as her hit debut

Anthony Cummins

15, May, 2023 @8:00 AM

Book Club: The Next Chapter review – smirking sequel as the squad head for Italy

Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda et al go on a bookish holiday after keeping their reading club going through lockdown, but jokes are thin on the ground

Peter Bradshaw

08, May, 2023 @1:00 AM

China’s censored feminist movement finds solace in Sally Rooney

Rooney is among a number of successful western authors who have found a growing audience in China’s restless younger generation

Helen Sullivan

11, Feb, 2023 @5:00 AM

At last the Turner prize gets it. Artists improve with age | Martha Gill

Veronica Ryan is the ‘oldest ever winner’ at 66. Here’s to more recognition of decades spent honing a skill

Martha Gill

11, Dec, 2022 @9:30 AM

What links Aubrey Plaza to Sally Rooney and The White Lotus?

Sashay down the rabbit hole to discover how the Hollywood actor is connected to these cultural touchstones – as well as a medieval sex farce

Larry Ryan

17, Sep, 2022 @12:00 PM

This month’s best paperbacks: Sally Rooney, Stephen King and more

Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some wonderful new paperbacks, from new editions of classic Marvel comics to great novels for the summer

21, Jun, 2022 @10:20 AM