Joshua Ferris' first book Then We Came to the End created the kind of buzz most writers would kill for, and was met with similarly enviable reviews. Three years later, he's back with The Unnamed, an unsettling take on the road novel. He talks to Viola Fort.
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
Interviews
Joshua Ferris' first book Then We Came to the End created the kind of buzz most writers would kill for, and was met with similarly enviable reviews. Three years later, he's back with The Unnamed, an unsettling take on the road novel. He talks to Viola Fort. More...
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
Neel Mukerjee's first novel, A Life Apart, is attracting widespread acclaim both here and abroad, he just wishes he'd started it sooner, he tells Beth Jones. More...
Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
The final book in Javier Marías's Your Face Tomorrow trilogy has been met with a critical cheer, and concludes an ambitious exploration of ideas that's been compared with Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. He talks to Viola Fort. More...
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
My week
Samantha Havery's debut The Wilderness was winner of the Betty Trask Prize and shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. She spends a week pondering her critics, celebrating her champions, and writing her next book while revisiting the last. More...
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies, spends a week perfecting the art of Christmas shopping, battling with the cat and self-medicating with Toblerone. More...
Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
Science writer Marcus Chown speaks up for reform of the libel laws, does coco crispie calculations and is outmaneuvered by the postman. More...
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
How I write
Amy Bloom's writing has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times and Best American Short Stories. Her most recent novel was Away, and she has just published a collection of short stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out. More...
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
John Burnside has published five works of fiction and ten collections of poetry, including The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award. Wakig up in Toytown is his most recent novel. More...
Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
Geoff Dyer is the author of Ways of Telling: The Work of John Berger, The Ongoing Moment and most recently, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. More...
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Samantha Havery's debut The Wilderness was winner of the Betty Trask Prize and shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. She spends a week pondering her critics, celebrating her champions, and writing her next book while revisiting the last.
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
Features
David Shields' new book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, calls on writers, artists and all working in the creative fields to be ever more mindful of reality in their work. In an increasingly manafactured world, he argues, it is the unadorned truth that must take precedent in the arts. Here he chooses a selection of books that have been stripped of artifice and lay bare their essential message. More...
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
Set against London's creaking financial industry in the autumn of 2008, Henry Sutton's novel Get Me Out of Here holds a mirrror up to city greed in the noughties. Here he traces the rise and fall of money men in fiction, from Jay Gatsby to Patrick Bateman. More...
Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
2009 was the year that saw the demise of Borders, the deaths of John Updike and Frank McCourt, the wrath of Alain de Botton and the resignation of Ruth Padel as Oxford professor of poetry. We asked some leading writers and poets for their highs and lows of the last twelve months in literature. More...
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
What I'm reading
Thomas Trofimuk's latest novel is Waiting for Columbus. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta. More...
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
Robin Robertson's fourth book of poetry is The Wrecking Light. More...
Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
Fireside reading from the Untitled editors. More...
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
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