Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season: a dyspeptic vision of Mexico today
This international Booker Prize-shortlisted "masterwork" is structurally adventurous, and rife with narco-style violence and expletive-heavy prose.
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Ali Smith’s Summer highlights the risks and rewards of this experimental quartet
Perhaps it's best to think of Summer as something other than a novel or, at least, a distinct subgenre of…
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“What happens when your body is a stranger to you?”: Sophie Mackintosh on destiny and motherhood
The novelist on feminist dystopia, free will, and what women choose to do with their bodies.
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Reading about Sylvia Plath, I understand we should all reserve the right to lie about ourselves
It used to be that only celebrities were subjects of biography, but life online has changed this.
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How Melania Trump gets what she wants
Dismissing Melania ignores two extraordinary feats: rising from lone eastern European immigrant to First Lady in 20 years, and being…
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Ernest Bevin: The forgotten titan of Labourism
Andrew Adonis’s biography on “Labour’s Churchill” rescues Bevin from undeserved obscurity.
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Iain Dale’s diary: Festivals both digital and drive-in, Beirut, and why I speak out as a survivor
Long after I was the first Brit to visit Beirut since the release of John McCarthy it became the tourist destination it should always…
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The sexual politics of Twilight
Stephanie Meyer will publish Midnight Sun, the fifth instalment of the Twilight saga, on 4 August. But how will Edward's…
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