indiom by Daljit Nagra; The Lights by Ben Lerner; Isdal by Susannah Dickey; The Ferguson Report by Nicole Sealy; Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay; For the Unnamed by Fred D’Aguiar
January 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about the unknowable
From William Shakespeare to WG Sebald, these books are written less to dispel mystery than to accept it
November 2020
He Who Must Not Be Named: why is Trump unnamed in so many books?
‘The dictator’, ‘this man’, ‘the president’ – over the last four years, authors have gone out of their way to avoid Trump’s name. But why?
October 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 books about creative writing
From linguistics to essays by Zadie Smith and Toni Morrison, poet Anthony Anaxagorou recommends some ‘lateral’ ways in to a demanding craft
February 2020
Rathbones Folio prize: Zadie Smith makes female-dominated shortlist
Is being the 'voice of a generation' a curse or an honour for novelists?
January 2020
Book clinic
Book clinic: what postmodernist writers should I try?
An admirer of Ben Lerner’s highly praised new novel looks for other avant garde avenues to explore
December 2019
The Guardian Books podcast
Ben Lerner and Meena Kandasamy on autofiction – books podcast
The hell of individuation and how dancing could be the cure
Brigid Delaney
November 2019
Best books of 2019
Best fiction of 2019
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner review – in a class of its own
Book of the day
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner review – a work of extraordinary intelligence
'It made me really crazy': Ben Lerner on confronting male rage and family trauma
October 2019
Two years on, the literature of #MeToo is coming of age
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
There has been a flowering of writing on the knotty problems of power and gender relations – but men must read it too, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
May 2017
Granta: Best of Young American Novelists 3 – review
Ben Lerner, Jen George and Mark Doten stand out in an impressive, largely avant-garde collection of stories
April 2017
The age of anxiety: what does Granta’s best young authors list say about America?
Granta’s list of the best young American novelists
November 2016
Meet the author
Ben Lerner: ‘Poetry is this space where every single particle of language is charged with the most meaning’
The acclaimed US writer talks about why he finds poetry the most irresistible – if embarrassing - medium
August 2015
10:04 by Ben Lerner review – a masterclass in metafiction
Ben Lerner’s clever second book blurs the divide between fiction and real life
June 2015
Top 10s
Top 10 books about being alone
Novelist Rebecca Dinerstein chooses her top 10 books on solitude, remoteness and physical or psychic isolation
