The lying life of John le Carré
It wasn't only in his pseudonymous spy fiction that the late novelist practised the art of invention – from childhood, David…
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The four thinkers who reinvented philosophy
Between the wars, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer and Walter Benjamin sought to transform the world by giving it…
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The many lives of Jacqueline Wilson
The bestselling author reflects on her difficult childhood, meeting her wife and taking on the smug, middle-class world of children’s…
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Why Bookshop.org is not the saviour the book world needs
The “ethical” alternative to Amazon was lauded when it arrived in the UK in November. But a number of high…
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Douglas Stuart wins the 2020 Booker Prize
The Scottish-American novelist was the bookies’ favourite and only white male author on the shortlist. But his novel Shuggie Bain tells…
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What the cat knows
How our feline companions can teach us to exist in the world.
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Why M John Harrison’s The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again won the Goldsmiths Prize
M John Harrison’s masterpiece has inventiveness embedded in its very DNA.
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M John Harrison wins the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize with The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
The “genre contrarian” wins this year’s prize for “fiction at its most novel” with an uncanny tale of Brexit Britain.
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