Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save it
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‘Is it a betrayal?’
Claire Messud on writing her family into fiction
For her new novel, the author drew from her parents’ letters and grandfather’s memoir. She describes the fears and joys that come with writing about family
Book of the day
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden review – the Dutch house
Rachel Seiffert
Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
The human-AI collaborative novel Robot Apocalypse 2030 – cartoon
News
Hay festival drops principal sponsor after boycotts over Israel and fossil fuel links
The books of my life
Paul Murray: ‘In some ways the T’ang poets were the original Sad Dads’
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma review – a brutal journey
Aminatta Forna
Fiction
The Horse by Willy Vlautin review – man and beast in harmony
Killian Fox
A musician’s chance encounter with a half-blind nag makes him take stock of his shattered life in the author and songwriter’s latest succinct but compelling novel
Fiction
Hey, Zoey by Sarah Crossan review – ‘the perfect girlfriend’
Carrie O'Grady
The jigsaw of a repressed wife’s life is pieced together in the story of love triangle with an AI twist
Fiction
Fast by the Horns by Moses McKenzie review – Bristol’s burning
Safiya Sinclair
Fiction
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru review – sex, drugs and conceptual art
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
Fiction
Long Island by Colm Tóibín review – the sequel to Brooklyn is a masterclass in subtlety and intelligence
John Self
Crime and thrillers roundup
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Laura Wilson
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Jenny Erpenbeck on her International Booker winner Kairos
Author Coco Mellors
I needed from the book something that I needed in my life – a sense of hope
Blue Sisters, the novelist’s follow-up to her debut Cleopatra and Frankenstein, focuses on death and addiction. She explains how she found her way to a more optimistic story
Sam Taylor
Translating is like X-raying a book. You get a deep tissue read
The US-based writer and translator on his new novel set in 1930s Vienna, his deep connection with the authors he has worked with and why he always returns to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
Emil Ferris
We can’t enter a future without our humanity
‘The only healing will be through justice’
Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza on femicide in Mexico
‘I was in a kind of ecstatic freefall’
Artist Miranda July on writing the book that could change your life
Deborah Levy
Writing and swimming help each other
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Regulars
The books of my life
Paul Murray: ‘In some ways the T’ang poets were the original Sad Dads’
Big idea
The big idea: the simple trick that can sabotage your critical thinking
Influencers and politicians use snappy cliches to get you on side – but you can fight fire with fire
Where to start with
Where to start with: Franz Kafka
Inscrutable bureaucracy and monstrous insects may not sound immediately appealing, but once you’re lost in Kafka’s world you won’t want to escape
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