Name by Constance Debré review – a demolition of bourgeois life
‘Mind-expanding books’: International Booker prize shortlist announced
‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez
March 2025
Dag Solstad obituary
Norwegian novelist who sustained a reputation as both seer and comrade for readers and writers for half a century
Books interview
Author Vincenzo Latronico: ‘I left Italy out of sadness’
The International Booker-longlisted Italian novelist on why he chose to rewrite Georges Perec, his preference for description over dialogue and being part of an anti-gentrification collective in Milan
‘How can one day be so voluminous?’: the Danish author who has written her own version of Groundhog Day
On the Clock by Claire Baglin review – a fast food novel for a refined palate
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa review – favours for furikake
February 2025
The books of my life
Andrey Kurkov: ‘At 17, I got my hands on an illegal copy of The Gulag Archipelago’
All 13 writers on International Booker longlist are first-time nominees
The Café With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – lost souls in postwar Vienna
Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva review – revenge of the giant humanoid mosquito
Perspectives by Laurent Binet review – a dazzling Renaissance romp
We Do Not Part by Han Kang review – a harrowing journey into South Korea’s bloody history
Book of the day
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico review – an object lesson in hollow hipsterism
Book of the day
We Do Not Part by Han Kang review – a masterpiece from the Nobel laureate
‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea
January 2025
Dealing With the Dead by Alain Mabanckou review – surreal murder mystery in Congo-Brazzaville
Washed-up Brits, local lowlifes and a Kray twin’s lighter: noir novel Spanish Beauty shines fond light on Benidorm
