Can a historical novel be morally serious, even tragic, and also playful at the same time? For a writer of fiction, history is a dangerous thing to play with—one doesn’t want to... Read more »
Have novels left anything unsaid about the internet of the past fifteen years? It feels as though they’ve exhausted the terrain, but perhaps they’ve just made the same points over and over,... Read more »
Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. This season’s …... Read more »
This year, we have decided to launch the annual Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize with an event as well as an announcement: an evening that will hopefully be highly enjoyable for anyone... Read more »
The best route to learning to love words in print could well be pictures. This, at least, is the hope of the publishing industry this spring, as it welcomes news that sales... Read more »
Cloud Boy by Greg Stobbs, Oxford, £7.99Sights, sounds, smells – the world around Bobby is just too enticing, and he’s always floating off into the clouds. How can his friends keep his... Read more »
Former journalist Gill Hornby, 65, published her first novel in her early 50s but it wasn’t until writing her third, Miss Austen (2020), that she hit her stride. Centred on Jane Austen’s... Read more »
We readers of Mathias Énard’s The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild know something that the novel’s protagonist could not: No one, at least in this corner of France, ever really dies.... Read more »
A novel about a serial killer and a children’s book about a dog are the books of 2024, according to Waterstones booksellers. Read moreUS prisons ban reading materials at alarming paceButter by... Read more »