This month’s best paperbacks: Jarvis Cocker, Barbara Kingsolver and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some intriguing new paperbacks, from an illustrated history of a rock star to Pulitzer prizewinning fiction
May 2021
Books that made me
Patrick Ness: ‘Terry Pratchett makes you feel seen and forgiven’
The author celebrates the most perfect sentence by Toni Morrison and his struggles with Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
April 2018
Books that made me
Elif Batuman: ‘My stress read? Epictetus during a dental procedure’
The American author on speed-reading The Second Sex, the book that made her cry and how Marie Kondo changed her life
June 2017
The best debut fiction from Megan Hunter, Gail Honeyman and more – reviews
Book of the day
The Idiot by Elif Batuman review – books v the world
May 2017
A life in ...
Elif Batuman interview: ‘I thought racism and sexism were over. I was in for a rude awakening’
The journalist-author on fictional truth, fake news and setting a coming-of-age novel in the ‘end of history’ mid-1990s
December 2014
World Book Night adds poetry to mass giveaway next April
Twelve and a half thousand copies of an anthology featuring poets from TS Eliot to Les Murray will be distributed free in the spring to promote reading
November 2014
Top 10s
The top 10 books about reading
Top 10: Books about books, where literature is integral to life, are a genre in themselves, as terrific titles by authors from Nicholson Baker to Geoff Dyer very readably show
January 2013
2013 arts preview
2013: the year ahead in books
From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by RS Thomas and WG Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real page-turner
April 2011
The Possessed by Elif Batuman - review
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman – review
