Elizabeth Gilbert is pulling a novel set in Russia from publication. That’s unsettling
Francine Prose
Elizabeth Gilbert was ridiculed for shelving her Russia-set novel, but I quite admire her
Emma Brockes
‘Eat, pray, pander’: mixed reactions after Elizabeth Gilbert pulls Russia-set novel
Eat, Pray, Love author withdraws new Russia-set novel from publication
March 2020
Books that made me
Elizabeth Gilbert: ‘Don’t we all wish we’d written Wolf Hall?’
The bestselling author on her love of Tove Jansson, trying to read Ulysses and why we shouldn’t ‘book-shame’
February 2020
Further reading
The best books about new beginnings
Uplifting titles from Tara Westover’s memoir Educated to Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City offer escape and inspiration
November 2019
Bad sex award: shortlist announced for 'Britain's most dreaded literary prize'
Dubious honour lines up contenders for the year’s most ‘outstandingly awful’ sexual scene, with Elizabeth Gilbert and Didier Decoin among the nominees
June 2019
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert review – hymn to female desire
Book of the day
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert review – the glamour of New York
June 2017
Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert and Rayya Elias celebrate love in private ceremony
La rondine; Adès, Barry, Beethoven; The Day After review – quite a hat-trick
January 2017
Bookmark this
From Roxane Gay to John Berger: literary highlights for Australia in January
A novel that began as a PhD, the science of ageing and a toxic family thriller are among the books of summer
September 2016
Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert says she is in a same-sex relationship: 'I love her, and she loves me'
In a Facebook post, Gilbert describes the revelation that followed her best friend Rayya Elias’s cancer diagnosis
July 2016
Books blog
Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
December 2015
Best culture 2015
Winners and losers: publishers pick the 2015 books they loved, missed and envied
Which books did well, which were left on the shelves, and which made them green with envy?
October 2015
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert review – lessons in life from the Eat, Pray, Love author
With sufficient Courage and Enchantment, everyone can unleash their inner ice skater
September 2015
Observer New Review Q&A
Elizabeth Gilbert: Chasing perfection is the enemy of all good things
The writer of Eat, Pray, Love on creativity, women’s fear of failing... and not caring what others think
April 2014
Books blog
Eat, Pray, Love for sale as author puts home on market
Elizabeth Gilbert is selling her 'Italianate Victorian' home for just $1m. Buy it and you'll surely get a role in her next book thrown in
February 2014
Eat, Pray, Love author nominated for £30,000 Wellcome book prize
Elizabeth Gilbert's account of a botanical odyssey is the only novel on a shortlist for the medically themed prize that also includes Oliver Sacks' investigation into hallucinations
October 2013
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert – review
Elizabeth Gilbert's epic second novel explores female sexual longing and the consolation of nature, writes Elizabeth Day
