I first had the idea of writing a book about loneliness in 2012. I was 35 and had just moved to New York City when I became lost in a labyrinth of isolation... Read more »
A search is under way for two lesbian grandmothers who inspired a new children’s book after a chance encounter with a pantomime dame at Blackpool Pride. The women, whose names are not... Read more »
Haunting the Black Air by Anthony Joseph (Bloomsbury, £12.99)Joseph’s follow-up to the TS Eliot prize-winning Sonnets for Albert sees his poetic approach become more radical. He pays homage to avant garde writers... Read more »
100 by Anthony Powell William Wood, Alberta, Canada, 68, retired art historian: “A series of novels that concerns several specific tiers of English society in the first three-quarters of the 20th century... Read more »
Dear BookBrowsers, This issue has those big new releases you’ve been waiting for. Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say follows Artie Dam, a secretly unhappy man living a charmed life. In... Read more »
On the morning of 4 June, when I heard the news of Marjane Satrapi’s death, I was stunned. I simply could not believe it. Although I had met her only a handful... Read more »
A never-before-published short story by Edith Wharton, the first female Pulitzer prize winner, who encapsulated the so-called gilded age of US society in bestselling novels including The Age of Innocence, received a... Read more »
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »