Benjamin Alire Sáenz, an award-winning fiction writer and poet who drew upon his sexuality and his life on the southern border, has died at age 71. He was the first Latino to... Read more »
In 1971, the German actor Klaus Kinski performed a theatrical monologue called Jesus Christ Saviour at the Deutschlandhalle arena in Berlin, but things didn’t quite go to plan. A controversial figure in... Read more »
Literary fiction Fiction Audition Katie Kitamura The opening pages of Katie Kitamura’s fifth novel establish a nervy, fraught physicality. The narrator is meeting a man at a restaurant. She is anxious, hyper-vigilant.... Read more »
My earliest reading memoryWhen I was eight, my mother bought me Stanley Bagshaw and the Short-sighted Football Trainer by Bob Wilson. I grew up thinking he was the same Bob Wilson who played... Read more »
Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood has won this year’s Nero book award for fiction for his novel Seascraper. Meanwhile, Claire Lynch won the debut fiction category for A Family Matter, and Sarah Perry’s... Read more »
At the start of The Rest of Our Lives, we learn that Tom, a 55-year-old law professor from New York, plans to leave his wife just as soon as he has dropped... Read more »
Benjamin Myers first came across the Booker prize-winning author Pat Barker when he was seven or eight and, though he didnât read her till much later, she made an impression, even then.... Read more »
A council contractor has apologised after painting over a mural of the late poet and actor Benjamin Zephaniah in Birmingham. The artwork appeared on the wall of an underpass in Hockley, central... Read more »
The late Benjamin Zephaniah, one of Birmingham’s leading cultural figures, is to take his rightful place watching over the city when a new, official mural honouring the life of the poet and... Read more »