Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera review – a Mexican hero in exile | Fiction

Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera review – a Mexican hero in exile | Fiction

Yuri Herrera’s evocative novella, crisply translated by Lisa Dillman, follows the real-life fortunes of Benito Juárez in the cultural melange of 1853 New Orleans. The former governor of Oaxaca was to become... Read more »
David Nicholls heads shortlist for Wodehouse comic fiction prize | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize

David Nicholls heads shortlist for Wodehouse comic fiction prize | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize

David Nicholls, Dolly Alderton, Caroline O’Donoghue and Kaliane Bradley are among the writers in the running to have a pig named after their book. The authors have been shortlisted for the Bollinger... Read more »
Eliza Clark: ‘I don’t think we respect female writers’ | Fiction

Eliza Clark: ‘I don’t think we respect female writers’ | Fiction

Newcastle-born Eliza Clark, 30, went viral on TikTok with her 2020 debut novel, Boy Parts, a violent, darkly comic thriller with a fetish photographer for an antiheroine, published by indie press Influx.... Read more »
Lissa Evans: ‘Charlotte’s Web had me beside myself with rage and disbelief’ | Fiction

Lissa Evans: ‘Charlotte’s Web had me beside myself with rage and disbelief’ | Fiction

My earliest reading memoryI’ve never really recovered from the emotional battering meted out by EB White’s Charlotte’s Web. Yes, of course the death of Charlotte was horribly sad, but far worse in... Read more »
Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section

Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section

Book News: Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section BookBrowse News – The Full Story... Read more »
‘I had a crush on him’: Bernardine Evaristo on writing Mr Loverman | Fiction

‘I had a crush on him’: Bernardine Evaristo on writing Mr Loverman | Fiction

I spend a lot of my life being other people, spending years inside the lives of my fictional protagonists, and, when the creative alchemy is going well, it is intensely satisfying. It’s... Read more »
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult review – Shakespeare was a woman | Fiction

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult review – Shakespeare was a woman | Fiction

In 2010, the bestselling American novelist Jodi Picoult complained that her work was suffering from sexism. Her 30 novels address weighty subjects from gay rights to gun control, and if they were... Read more »
David Nicholls heads shortlist for Wodehouse comic fiction prize | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize

Virginie Despentes: ‘I wasn’t writing Baise-Moi from a very good place’ | Fiction

Virginie Despentes, 55, was born in Nancy, France, and lives between Paris and Barcelona. Her books include her 1993 debut, Baise-Moi, about two sex workers on a killing spree; the feminist manifesto... Read more »
‘I had a crush on him’: Bernardine Evaristo on writing Mr Loverman | Fiction

Elaine by Will Self review – an intense reimagining of the author’s mother’s life | Fiction

“Madame Bovary, c’est moi,” Flaubert said. What would Will Self say of his new novel? “Elaine, c’est moi”? “Madame Bovary, c’est ma mere”? Described in the blurb as “perhaps the first work... Read more »
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