There’s barely been a moment in the last half-century when David Byrne hasn’t been zinging about, dancing forward, opting odd. The art-school dropout frontman of Talking Heads, he moved sideways into ballet,... Read more »
The number of children’s books featuring Black main characters fell by almost 8% last year, according to research into diversity in UK publishing. Just 47 – or 2.1% – of the 2,189... Read more »
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Canadian author Patrick deWitt broke through with a western, 2011’s Booker-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers. Now, he has taken on another hallowed American genre: the road novel. Recent works by Miranda July and... Read more »
Back in 1995, when she was in her mid-20s, Min Jin Lee quit her job as a corporate lawyer. As a teenager she had been diagnosed as a hepatitis B carrier and... Read more »
Dear BookBrowsers, This big middle-of-summer issue features a fascinating array of nonfiction, including the latest from humorist David Sedaris, the witty autobiographical essay collection The Land and Its People, which touches on... Read more »
The poet Alice Oswald is no stranger to thinking in public about her art. She was Oxford professor of poetry until 2023, and her lectures are available online. But this is her... Read more »
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Have It by John Cooper Clarke; The Dodo Stories by Mary Mulholland; Red River Valley by Ian McMillan; Some Sacred Harbour by Roger Robinson; Otherwhere by Carolyn Forché Have It by John... Read more »