When a new book is published by a writer dead for a decade, there is always some suspicion that the bottom of the barrel is being scraped. When the writer is Harper Lee, there... Read more »
Tom Paulin and Sarah Howe are among the poets shortlisted for this year’s £25,000 TS Eliot prize, the UK and Ireland’s most prestigious award for a single volume of poetry. The shortlist... Read more »
1. Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia Ian Foxley at home in Yorkshire. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Guardian “What neither man knew was that... Read more »
Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85 Jun 04 2025 Edmund White, the American writer, playwright and essayist who attracted acclaim for his semi-autobiographical novels such as... Read more »
This past October, subscribers to Woman of Letters, the Substack newsletter of the writer Naomi Kanakia, received an e-mail titled “Why I am publishing a novella on Substack.” This novella, Kanakia wrote,... Read more »
In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for... Read more »
What to expect from Lisa Marie Presleyâs memoir? Some sanitised, cagey reminiscences, dutifully studded with anecdotes about her father, Elvis, the king of rockânâroll, who died aged 42 in 1977? Instead, itâs... Read more »