Fiction

Todd Goddard’s new biography reveals a man who loved alcohol and mystery

The novelist’s Happy Meal plotting serves up the same constituent parts over and over

Gliff is a different sort of project, but still one which reveals a desire to comment on contemporary culture

Francis Spufford’s latest is a gorgeously rich and multilayered story, packed with gunfire, music and superstition

It’s hard to find writers ancient or modern who have used language with a music, wit and tenderness comparable to Moore’s

‘It would be very difficult, with the homogenization of culture, to publish a book like Trainspotting now’

Our writers weigh in

The beauty of dirty realism is that it captures regular life in all its stupefying, and sometimes transcendent, malaise

The pre-woke literary world considered authorial freedom sacrosanct

The ‘manuscript wish list’ prizes enforces identity politics in fiction publishing

Martin Amis has written another autobiography — sort of

This newly translated novel by the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina is really two books, spliced together in alternating chapters. One is a deeply researched account of the squalid peregrinations of James Earl Ray, who spent two months on the run after murdering Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. The other is a memoir charting … Read more