A novel about a serial killer and a children’s book about a dog are the books of 2024, according to Waterstones booksellers. Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated from Japanese by Polly Barton,... Read more »
Elizabeth Jane Howardâs much-loved Cazalet Chronicles series will be continued by her niece, it has been announced. Novelist Louisa Young will write the sixth, seventh and eighth books in the series, which... Read more »
Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” is also a return to earlier works: a novella he published in Japan, in 1980, when he was thirty-one, and the novel... Read more »
Zoe Thorogood was walking back to her flat in Bradford last month when she got the call. For two days she had been trying to track down her younger brother, but with... Read more »
Years ago, a man who was then my fiancé gave me a mourning ring, inscribed with the name and dates of birth and death of a Frenchwoman who lived in the mid-eighteenth... 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 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 »
Body horror is a genre that features the mutilation or transformation of the human body. Always graphic and usually grotesque, its trademark terrors range from dismemberment to cannibalism, which some authors use... Read more »
Ismail Kadare, 88, dies; His novels brought Albania’s plight to the world Jul 01 2024 Ismail Kadare, the Albanian novelist and poet who single-handedly wrote his isolated Balkan homeland onto the map... Read more »