Subversive, queer and terrifyingly relevant: six reasons why Moby-Dick is the novel for our times (2019) literature Article 1758 words, published Jul 30 2019 23 votes
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The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgård, review – long-lost siblings are linked across time and space in this expansive novel fiction reviews Article 963 words 7 votes
Debut novel by Millie Bobby Brown reignites debate over ghostwritten celebrity books Article 733 words, published Sep 14 2023 16 votes
Olga Ravn on her new hybrid novel about maternal ambivalence, her debt to Doris Lessing, and attempting to read Freud aged ten Article 1054 words 5 votes
‘It's time the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo grew up’ – Karin Smirnoff on her shocking sequel fiction Article 946 words 13 votes
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‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: Teen literary influencers swaying publishers Article 1377 words 13 votes
Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto was listed for sale on Waterstones website – UK bookseller removes anti-Muslim document by Norwegian extremist Article 528 words 7 votes
Ann Patchett talks about her new book, running a bookshop, and resisting censorship Article 2505 words 8 votes
‘The Norse Myths That Shape the Way We Think’ by Carolyne Larrington – from Tolkien to Marvel, the huge influence of Norse myths on modern culture literature reviews Article 895 words 2 votes
Karin Smirnoff pens new Dragon Tattoo novel – picks up from David Lagercrantz in filling out the late Stieg Larsson's vision for a ten-book sequence fiction Article 407 words, published Nov 10 2022 5 votes
Judith Schalansky has become the ninth author to be selected for the Future Library, which asks authors to create a work that will not be revealed to readers until 2114 libraries Article 530 words 5 votes
‘I just wanted my life to end’: The mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance Article 2636 words 5 votes
US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools libraries Article 1034 words 18 votes
HG Wells fans spot numerous errors on Royal Mint's new £2 coin science fiction Article 692 words, published Jan 5 2021 9 votes
Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions may finally be published, after five-decade wait science fiction Article 685 words 7 votes
Twenty-five years of His Dark Materials: Philip Pullman on the journey of a lifetime Article 2503 words 14 votes
Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time libraries Article 817 words 10 votes
Brandon Sanderson: 'After a dozen rejected novels, you think maybe this isn’t for you' Article 1492 words, published Jul 23 2020 9 votes
The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months Article 2744 words 32 votes
Terry Pratchett novels to get 'absolutely faithful' TV adaptations science fiction Article 484 words 15 votes
"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time Article 570 words, published Feb 21 2020 10 votes
A new book by Greta Thunberg's mother reveals the reality of family life during her daughter's transformation from bullied teenager to climate icon Article 5189 words 14 votes
Requesting an export of personal data from Amazon shows how extensively they track your reading habits Article 980 words 11 votes
A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail libraries Article 534 words 15 votes
William Gibson, the writer who invented ‘cyberspace’ – and possibly the most influential living sci-fi author – on the challenges of keeping up with a reality even stranger than fiction science fiction Article 3112 words 16 votes
Echoes of the City by Lars Saabye Christensen review – sacrifice and strength in postwar Oslo reviews fiction Article 573 words 5 votes
Protests grow as Peter Handke receives Nobel medal in Sweden – Turkey joined Albania and Kosovo in boycotting Tuesday's Nobel prize ceremony literature Article 725 words 5 votes
Nobel prize for literature hit by fresh round of resignations – two members of the external committee set up to oversee reforms quit on Monday literature Article 576 words 6 votes
Karl Ove Knausgård is to become the sixth contributor to the Future Library, which collects works by contemporary authors that will remain unread until 2114 libraries Article 519 words 9 votes
Novelists have condemned the Staunch prize – for thrillers without violence against women – as a ‘gagging order’, after organisers said the genre could bias jurors fiction Article 963 words 7 votes
From Agatha Christie to Gillian Flynn: Fifty great thrillers by women fiction Article 904 words 5 votes
Fifty shades of white: The long fight against racism in romance novels fiction Article 7361 words, published Apr 4 2019 5 votes
The rise of robot authors: Is the writing on the wall for human novelists? fiction Article 2045 words 4 votes