The 100 best British novels, as chosen by international critics
Zeljka Marosevic
In this season of “Best of” lists, BBC Culture has outdone everyone. Rather than produce a list of the best books of the year, BBC has compiled a list of… Read more »
In this season of “Best of” lists, BBC Culture has outdone everyone. Rather than produce a list of the best books of the year, BBC has compiled a list of… Read more »
Deborah Treisman says that the fiction department at The New Yorker is “often frustrated by novellas: they can do so much, and yet we can’t do much with them. There… Read more »
John Updike, whose prolificity once memorably led a reader to inquire if he’d “ever had an unpublished thought”, wrote about a lot of things. Which is why it’s easy to… Read more »
“Crowd” is the prefix of the moment. Crowdfunding. Crowdsourcing. Crowdediting. Crowded House. Which is probably because it takes less time to say than “tragedy of the commons.” All of these… Read more »
Ahh September. In his ode “To Autumn”, John Keats wrote of a season full of “mists and mellow fruitfulness”, a sleepy, gently passing of time after summer’s energy. Keats, clearly,… Read more »
Authors from across the world have signed a petition condemning state surveillance like that carried out by the NSA, as revealed by Edward Snowden earlier this year. Their petition, which… Read more »
Authors, take heart. The recognition you deserve could just be a few decades delayed. Case in point: John Williams’s 1965 novel, Stoner, which was just picked as Waterstones’ Book of… Read more »
If you’re currently sifting sand out of your loafers and thinking with mild guilt of that paperback you (accidentally) left behind in the guest room, you, my wicked book-abandoning friend, are not alone.… Read more »
Includes 42 examples for flouting… Read more »