‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ | International Booker prize

‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ | International Booker prize

As Yáng Shuāng-zǐ accepted the 2026 International Booker prize at the Tate Modern on Tuesday night for Taiwan Travelogue, alongside her translator Lin King, she used her speech to speak frankly about... Read more »
‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ | International Booker prize

Zeno Sworder’s hopeful and poetic Once I Was a Giant wins book of the year at Australian industry awards | Australian books

Zeno Sworder’s beautifully illustrated picture book Once I Was a Giant, which tells the tale of a tree transformed into a pencil who writes its own story, has won book of the... Read more »
‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ | International Booker prize

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 21st

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The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson review – indie debut on the Women’s prize shortlist | Fiction

The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson review – indie debut on the Women’s prize shortlist | Fiction

‘I remember growing up and smelling lanolin everywhere and the wisps of wool just floating around,” debut novelist Marcia Hutchinson has said of her home city of Bradford, then a traditional Yorkshire... Read more »
‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize | Books

‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize | Books

A few syntactical tics – and the verdict of an AI detection platform – have sparked a furore over the possibility that a short story given a prestigious literary award was written... Read more »
Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine? | Health, mind and body books

Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine? | Health, mind and body books

After Daisy Fancourt’s daughter Daphne was born prematurely, she was confined to an incubator, fighting for her life against a series of infections. Unable to touch her baby or even properly enter... Read more »
‘Andy Burnham’s life was changed by the poet Tony Harrison’: writers discuss literature, politics and the 100 best novels | Books

‘Andy Burnham’s life was changed by the poet Tony Harrison’: writers discuss literature, politics and the 100 best novels | Books

Despite shortening attention spans, people are “still reading novels”, said the writer Elif Shafak at a panel event on the Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels ever published in English, which... Read more »
Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine? | Health, mind and body books

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 20th

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Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine? | Health, mind and body books

I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder review – romance for the terminally online | Fiction

The opening section of I Want You to Be Happy is an excellently droll and surefooted description of a man and a woman meeting in a bar, trying to make conversation over... Read more »
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