The trial of the man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie has been postponed because of the publication of the author’s memoir about the attack. A lawyer representing Hadi Matar, who was charged... Read more »
Zadie Smith, Paul Murray and Naomi Klein are among the authors who have been shortlisted for the Writers’ prize, the award previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize. Smith’s first historical novel... Read more »
Monday marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Wilkie Collins, the Victorian writer known for his mystery novels. His writing became foundational to the way modern crime novels are constructed, and... Read more »
Donald Trump memorably compared the New York Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Eva Perón, the Argentinian first lady known as Evita. But a new book reveals that when the young Latino leftwinger... Read more »
The term “quarterlife” was coined more than two decades ago by Abby Wilner, co-author (with Alexandra Robbins) of Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties. Although psychotherapist Satya Doyle... Read more »
A new novel about Anne Frank’s life before she went into hiding, published in cooperation with the Anne Frank House, will be published later this year. When We Flew Away: A Novel... Read more »
According to the author Justin Torres, “Backstory and exposition are tricks of the adult mind.” That explains why his first novel, “We the Animals,” which is told from the shared perspective of... Read more »
Something happens to us around the age of five, six or seven, when our sense of ourself contracts, becomes more specific, and we realise that besides being part of a family and... Read more »
In 1946 a young atmospheric scientist named Bernard Vonnegut made a significant discovery. It had already been shown that clouds could be made to produce snow or rain by “seeding” them with... Read more »