Yuri Herreraâs 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, 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 »
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 »
My earliest reading memoryIâve never really recovered from the emotional battering meted out by EB Whiteâs Charlotteâs Web. Yes, of course the death of Charlotte was horribly sad, but far worse in... Read more »
Book News: Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section
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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. Itâs... Read more »
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 »
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 »
âMadame Bovary, câest moi,â Flaubert said. What would Will Self say of his new novel? âElaine, câest moiâ? âMadame Bovary, câest ma mereâ? Described in the blurb as âperhaps the first work... Read more »