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Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang – a wickedly funny publishing thriller

In the follow-up to her bestseller, Babel, Kuang delivers a hugely entertaining account of a brazen literary heist

Anthony Cummins

21, May, 2023 @8:00 AM

M John Harrison: ‘I want to be the first human to imitate ChatGPT’

The titan of literary science fiction on AI hype, writing his ‘anti-memoir’, and his take on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

Anthony Cummins

20, May, 2023 @5:00 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

Ottessa Moshfegh: ‘I’m not brainstorming ways to freak people out’

The acclaimed author on her post-Covid novel Lapvona, the influence of Ingmar Bergman and the Brothers Grimm, and the draw of England in the 90s for her next book

Anthony Cummins

13, May, 2023 @5:00 PM

Guy Gunaratne: ‘Writing the Abu Ghraib bit of the book took its toll’

Booker-longlisted in 2018 for their debut novel, In Our Mad and Furious City, the Londoner talks about the follow-up, the slippery life story of a terror suspect, and the fellowship of Ali Smith during a time of stress

Anthony Cummins

06, May, 2023 @5:00 PM

Matt Rowland Hill: ‘My mother says she will sue me if I ever write another book like it’

The author of Original Sins on his book’s impact on his evangelical parents, reading the Patrick Melrose series while waiting for drug dealers, and how looking middle class saved him from arrest

Anthony Cummins

29, Apr, 2023 @5:00 PM

Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 review – more solipsism than state of the nation

The latest celebration of emerging literary talent brings thrills, charm and emotional punch to the page. But this new generation have taken an inward turn compared with the more worldly themes of bygone years

Anthony Cummins

16, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM

Shy by Max Porter review – exhilarating portrait of a lost boy in 90s Britain

A young delinquent takes stock of his bad luck and bad decisions in this brief but brilliant novel from the author of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers

Anthony Cummins

03, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM

Catherine Lacey: ‘That constant nervous Twitter energy repels me’

The American novelist, whose latest work is a fake biography of an avant-garde artist, on growing up in Mississippi and why her fiction has ‘never actively involved cellphones or the internet’

Anthony Cummins

01, Apr, 2023 @5:00 PM

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld review – lights, camera, attraction

The US author’s zingy new novel tackles celebrity, lockdown and frustrated love lives with ambition and panache

Anthony Cummins

27, Mar, 2023 @6:00 AM

Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías review – seductive and inescapably poignant

The Spanish novelist’s final book is a twisting espionage tale shot through with slantwise humour

Anthony Cummins

19, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM

Richard Milward: ‘I hid my writing like a secret vice’

The novelist on his latest book, a Charles Manson-inspired work written in slang, his love of the band Mogwai and the trials of sorting post for Royal Mail

Anthony Cummins

18, Mar, 2023 @6:00 PM