William Faulkner
Imaginary regions: travel book ‘journeys’ to fictional literary locations
Spanish anthology explores places created by authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Chinua Achebe
Sam Jones
09, May, 2022 @11:15 AM
What connects Drive My Car to Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood?
From Haruki Murakami to Paul Thomas Anderson via The Big Sleep, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film inspires a trip down the rabbit hole
Larry Ryan
20, Nov, 2021 @1:00 PM
Damon Galgut: ‘After reading Roald Dahl, the world never looked the same’
The Booker-longlisted author on the dazzling wordplay of Nabokov, feeling bemused by Haruki Murakami and struggling to finish Dickens
Damon Galgut
06, Aug, 2021 @9:00 AM
‘I don’t want to remember these things’: dark pop poet John Murry on surviving rape, heroin and family strife
The singer-songwriter talks about his adoptive relative William Faulkner, his violent childhood and heroin – and saves a surprise until the end
Simon Hattenstone
16, Jun, 2021 @11:23 AM
'It had been on my shelf for years': readers share their lockdown reads
Publishers report that coronavirus has boosted sales of long, classic novels. You reveal the great baggy monsters you’ve found the time to tackle
Guardian readers and Rachel Obordo
06, Nov, 2020 @10:00 AM
Top 10 tales about the rich | Sarah Blake
From Scott Fitzgerald’s glamour to Edith Wharton’s high-society intrigue, the best of these seductive stories reveal uncomfortable secrets
Sarah Blake
05, Feb, 2020 @1:08 PM
The Sandman, Catch-22, Cloud Atlas ... is there such thing as an 'unfilmable' book?
Books by authors like Neil Gaiman and Gabriel García Márquez have been dismissed as too difficult to adapt. With Netflix offering both time and cash, is that true anymore?
Sian Cain
03, Jul, 2019 @1:23 PM
Top 10 novels about pariahs | Richard Zimler
In characters such as Scrooge, Ira Ringold and Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, those society seeks to exclude and expel make for compelling reading
Richard Zimler
05, Jun, 2019 @10:12 AM
Fatima Bhutto: ‘David Foster Wallace on David Lynch is pretty funny’
The novelist on admiring Maggie Nelson and Rachel Kushner, and being irritated by William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
Fatima Bhutto
26, Apr, 2019 @8:59 AM
Book clinic: what to read on a road trip in the deep south
From William Faulkner to John Kennedy Toole, Alex Preston selects authors who evoke America’s civil rights history
Alex Preston
02, Jun, 2018 @5:00 PM
Buy a cat, stay up late, don't drink: top 10 writers’ tips on writing
Made a New Year resolution to start writing that novel? Take some writing tips from Leo Tolstoy, Muriel Spark, John Steinbeck and other famous authors
Travis Elborough
03, Jan, 2018 @11:27 AM
Top 10 books about psychoanalysis
Freud’s work changed fiction and philosophy as well as ideas of psychology and sexuality. From Michel Foucault to Philip Roth, here is some great writing about the talking cure
Philippe Van Haute and Herman Westerink
10, May, 2017 @12:11 PM
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