The books of two award-winning New Zealand authors have been disqualified from consideration for the country’s top literature prize because artificial intelligence was used in the creation of their cover designs. Stephanie... Read more »
Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker prize for his novel Flesh. Szalay’s sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from his youth to midlife. The... Read more »
Kiran Desai The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny When we emptied my father’s flat after his death, a crowd descended. They rushed away the cupboards and chairs, his shirts and socks. Ragpickers... Read more »
CD Rose has won the 2025 Goldsmiths prize for his novel We Live Here Now, praised by judges as “hilarious and deeply haunting”. The £10,000 award, now in its 13th year, honours... Read more »
Australian author Helen Garner has been named the winner of the 2025 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction for How to End a Story, becoming the first writer to win the prestigious award... Read more »
Richard Ayoade, Guy Jenkin, Sandi Toksvig and Nussaibah Younis are among eight authors in the running to have a pig named after their novel in this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for... Read more »
Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie have been named joint winners of this year’s Forward prize for best collection, one of the UK’s most prestigious poetry awards, marking the first time in the... Read more »
At the end of the movie Ratatouille, the food reviewer Anton Ego, voiced by Peter O’Toole, makes this beautiful defence of the art of the critic: “There are times when a critic... Read more »