I haven’t kept many things from my teenage years. I have a box of photos – hazy snapshots from holidays and parties, captured on disposable cameras and developed at Boots. I have a stack... Read more »
Lebanon may be the most complicated place in the world to be a “mixed” couple. It has no civil marriage law, fifteen personal status laws, and a political system built on sectarianism.... Read more »
If any few pages of Sally Rooneyâs fourth novel blew through the streets on an autumn wind, many a chance reader would be sure who wrote them. Theyâd recognise the sentences precision-engineered... Read more »
Does everyone really have a book in them? And if you want to write one, where do you start? The novelist and podcaster Elizabeth Day, host of the How to Fail series,... Read more »
Jiaming Tangâs debut novel opens in China in the 1980s, at the Workersâ Cinema in rural Fuzhou, a cruising spot for queer men. The cinema is described as a magical, almost utopian... Read more »
A few weeks after Emily Henryâs second romance novel, You and Me on Vacation, was published in May 2021, she noticed a âgiantâ spike in sales. Her editor and agent had noticed it... Read more »
Monica Heisey The author of Really Good, Actually on Being Alive from the musical Company, by Stephen Sondheim My favourite love song is maybe a little untraditional in that it’s not addressed... Read more »
When the journalist Elizabeth Flock was in her early twenties, she took a trip to Rome with friends. They hired a guide for a day, a bearded man a few years older.... Read more »
In your story from this week’s issue, “That Girl,” a bookish teen-ager named Theo finds herself increasingly attracted to Shirlee, a more rebellious girl from her neighborhood. How did these two characters... Read more »