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‘I’m going to write about all of it’: author Chris Kraus on success, drugs and I Love Dick

A decade after her debut became a cult hit, the US author talks about the true crime that inspired her latest novel, #MeToo overreach and being married to an addict

Chris Kraus regards the late succes…

58 days ago

‘They didn’t even read the book’: Palestinian American children’s authors censored in US

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

Jenan Matari had just begun promoting her debut children’s book this summer when the cancel…

4 months ago

‘A psychological umbilical cord’: Why fiction loves difficult mothers

As the film of Deborah Levy’s novel Hot Milk is released, author Abigail Bergstrom explores the literary fascination with inaccessible, emotionally distant maternal figures

‘My love for my mother is l…

Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned | Anna Aslanyan

Books – on LGBTQ+ themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying oppressors’ work

  • Anna Aslanyan is a journalist and translator, and the author…

5 months ago

‘We need to reclaim these words’: Inside England’s first romance-only bookshop catering to record levels of popularity

Saucy Books in London has become the go-to destination for romance readers – but fans say misogyny is stopping the genre getting the recognition it deserves

Whether you want a brooding billionaire, a …

Richard Flanagan: ‘When I reread Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop it had corked badly’

The Booker-winning author on taking inspiration from Kafka, and a youthful passion for Jackie Collins

My earliest reading memory
My mother reading Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows to me – and …

The Guardian view on the Women’s prize for nonfiction: shining a light where it’s badly needed | Editorial

Having a separate award was good for female novelists. Now a medical author is blazing a trail with a true story

Female nonfiction writers are paid less on average, receive fewer reviews and win fewer…

6 months ago

Willkommen, bienvenue! New festival celebrates translated fiction from Cameroon to Slovakia as sales boom

Co-organised by translator Polly Barton, Translated By, Bristol will feature conversations between writers and their translators, plus a ‘translation duel’

A new festival of translated literature is b…

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