Canadian author Patrick deWitt broke through with a western, 2011’s Booker-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers. Now, he has taken on another hallowed American genre: the road novel. Recent works by Miranda July and... Read more »
Former Baillie Gifford winner Patrick Radden Keefe is among the authors shortlisted for the 2026 prize, this time with his book on London’s criminal underbelly. The six-strong shortlist spans literary biography, ancient... Read more »
Towards the end of Love Lane, elderly protagonist Harry Cane becomes a figure of twinkly-eyed mischief. Gossiping with his granddaughter Pip, he advises her that “people without secrets … are like people... Read more »
1. What technology takes from us – and how to take it back Composite: Artwork by Anais Mims and Guardian Design. Source Photographs by Getty Images Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the... Read more »
“I had to pick through the wreckage, blind at first. I had to find all the pieces of me, scattered all around, and put them back together, one by one.” Following a... Read more »
Austin Butler is set to play Patrick Bateman in director Luca Guadagnino’s new take on Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. According to Variety, the Oscar-nominated star of Elvis will take the lead... Read more »
Amid the sunshine and wild celebrations of Friday 25 August 1944, the day the Germans surrendered control of Paris, Charles de Gaulle declared the city to have been âliberated by itselfâ, with... Read more »
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Patrick Langley reads his story “Life with Spider,” from the... Read more »
In “Life with Spider,” your story in this week’s issue, a young man named Fletcher encounters a creature with six legs, jet-black skin, and no eyes, ears, or mouth. This is Spider,... Read more »