Out of sadness into empathy: the top 10 caregivers in fiction
Writers from Alice Munro to Ottessa Moshfegh explore some of life’s most gruelling experiences in ways that build in survival tools
August 2017
Book of the day
A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma review – beautiful, sad short stories
Short story roundup – prison, pregnancy and the pain of adolescent sexuality
September 2016
The Obama years: novelists assess his legacy
Expectations were sky high when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. As his term draws to a close, has he disappointed or delivered? Novelists in America appraise him
June 2016
Akhil Sharma wins €100,000 Dublin International literary award
Family Life, his autobiographical novel, is praised by judges as ‘the highest form of achievement in literature’ but the winner has some humbler aspirations
March 2015
Rachel Cooke: the pleasure and pain of being a Folio prize judge
My hero
My hero: Abraham Lincoln by Akhil Sharma
Folio prize-winner Akhil Sharma’s long journey from private despair to public honour
Akhil Sharma wins Folio prize for fiction
July 2014
Best holiday reads 2014
Authors and critics, including Ali Smith and John Banville, reveal which titles, both old and new, they're most looking forward to reading on their summer holidays
May 2014
Family Life by Akhil Sharma review – an unhappy emigration
A troubled story about the loneliness and despair of an Indian family whose American dream turns sour. By Kirsty Gunn
