The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist

The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist

This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards, beginning with Young People’s Literature. Check back at 2 P.M. for the Translated Literature list, and Thursday... Read more »
Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq review – deepfakes, sex acts and cyber-attacks | Fiction

Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq review – deepfakes, sex acts and cyber-attacks | Fiction

Until fairly recently, anyone asked to name France’s most prominent living author might well have said Michel Houellebecq, who shot to prominence in the 1990s and 00s with his novels Whatever, Atomised... Read more »
Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq review – deepfakes, sex acts and cyber-attacks | Fiction

Munichs by David Peace review – United in guilt and grief | Fiction

You could see Peace’s new book as his third in a series of novels centred on football bosses – the Manageriad? – after The Damned Utd (about Brian Clough) and Red or... Read more »
Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq review – deepfakes, sex acts and cyber-attacks | Fiction

Precipice by Robert Harris review – the PM and the socialite | Fiction

Robert Harris’s background in journalism is always evident in his books. The novels themselves are remarkably various, taking us from ancient Rome (his Cicero trilogy) to high finance (2011’s The Fear Index),... Read more »
Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq review – deepfakes, sex acts and cyber-attacks | Fiction

Ferdia Lennon: ‘I was tired of Merchant Ivory accents’ | Fiction

Ferdia Lennon, 36, was born and raised in Dublin. His first novel, Glorious Exploits, set in ancient Sicily, was the winner of this year’s Waterstones debut fiction prize. It follows two jobless... Read more »
Liars by Sarah Manguso review – searing tale of a toxic marriage | Fiction

Liars by Sarah Manguso review – searing tale of a toxic marriage | Fiction

A brilliant, imaginative woman; a mediocre man with too high an idea of himself, in need of a woman to destroy. It’s a dynamic that goes back to George Eliot’s Middlemarch or Henry... Read more »
Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel | Fiction

Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel | Fiction

The fictional character Septimus Warren Smith, from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, is the first of many spectres to haunt the pages of Sam Sax’s incendiary, prose-poetic debut novel, Yr Dead. Midway through... Read more »
Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction

Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction

Book News: Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction BookBrowse News – The Full Story Pope... Read more »
Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq review – deepfakes, sex acts and cyber-attacks | Fiction

Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for “riotous” novel Glorious Exploits | Books

Ferdia Lennon has won this year’s Waterstones debut fiction prize for his “riotous, exuberant treat of a novel”, Glorious Exploits. The novel, which took about seven years to write, is set in... Read more »
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