Authors from Barbara Ehrenreich to Damon Galgut highlight these undervalued workers and their sharp perspectives on those they tidy up after
June 2022
Authors at Hay festival weigh the meaning of authenticity
Who can write about whom was a running question, tackled by writers from Rose Tremain to Damon Galgut
May 2022
Controversies, epiphanies and the case against Canva: highlights from Sydney writers’ festival
Coinciding with the federal election, this year’s festival buzzed with big ideas about politics, hope and writing. Here are 10 things we learned
April 2022
Hay festival returns with its first in-person event for three years
Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bernardine Evaristo, Elif Shafak and Benedict Cumberbatch are among those taking part in the 11-day gathering in Welsh border town
February 2022
Damon Galgut and Colm Tóibín join ‘rich and large’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist
Galgut’s Booker winner and Tóibín’s fictionalised biography of Thomas Mann are two of eight titles selected by the judges
December 2021
Best books of 2021
Best fiction of 2021
Dazzling debuts, a word-of-mouth hit, plus this year’s bestsellers from Sally Rooney, Jonathan Franzen, Kazuo Ishiguro and more
November 2021
‘How do you give up privilege?’: Damon Galgut on his Booker-winning novel
In The Promise, Galgut chronicles the decline of post-apartheid South Africa through four funerals over 40 years
Damon Galgut’s layered feat of fiction is a clear Booker winner
Justine Jordan
The Promise, about a toxic family in a toxic society, feels like the book this author was born to write
Damon Galgut wins Booker prize with ‘spectacular’ novel The Promise
The novelist takes the £50,000 prize with a ‘strong, unambiguous commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself’
October 2021
A pioneering pilot, a vast wilderness, a drunken afternoon... Booker shortlisted authors reveal their inspirations
Patricia Lockwood, Anuk Arudpragasam, Richard Powers and more on how they made the 2021 shortlist
September 2021
Analysis: the 2021 Booker shortlist tunes in to the worries of our age
Books interview
Damon Galgut: ‘The Booker pulls a nasty little trick on you’
July 2021
Rachel Cusk’s singular novel stands out on wide-ranging Booker longlist
Justine Jordan
Booker prize reveals globe-spanning longlist of ‘engrossing stories’
June 2021
Book of the day
The Promise by Damon Galgut review – a curse down the decades
This bravura novel about the undoing of a bigoted South African family during apartheid deserves awards
January 2015
Arctic Summer review – a skilful reimagining of EM Forster’s life
Damon Galgut reveals his affinity with loners in this compelling fictionalised biography of EM Forster, writes Justin Cartwright
April 2014
Arctic Summer review – a bold exploration of EM Forster's inner life
Damon Galgut skilfully weaves A Passage To India into a compassionate fictionalised biography of its author, writes Lettie Ransley
May 2012
10 of the best
John Mullan's 10 of the best: long walks
From Basho's haiku to Galgut's Lesotho
December 2010
Books blog
A quick look at 2010 in short stories
Chris Power: The year saw strong work from Lydia Davis, Damon Galgut, Yiyun Li among others, as well as other brilliant stuff I no doubt missed
October 2010
Books blog
Who will win the Booker prize?
Who do you think will carry off the most prestigious award in British books?
