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Hanif Kureishi

May 2024

  • Dee Ahluwalia, arms outstretched, as Karim, in 70s clothes in The Buddha of Suburbia.

    The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review

  • Dee Ahluwalia (Karim), centre, in The Buddha of Suburbia at the Swan Theatre.

    The Buddha of Suburbia review – playful spin through Hanif Kureishi’s novel

April 2024

  • ‘The book was like a bomb dropping’ … Natasha Jayetileke and Dee Ahluwalia rehearse The Buddha of Suburbia.

    ‘Although I’m tetraplegic, I’ve started to feel normal’: Hanif Kureishi on staging The Buddha of Suburbia

    As his coming-of-age rollercoaster hits the stage, the novelist talks about the boredom of hospitals, how Britain has changed since Buddha – and why shouting at his kids is a great way to write blogs

December 2023

  • The Wombles

    The week in audio: The Wombles; A Single Act; ’Twas the Nighy Before Christmas; Hanif Kureishi Guest Edits Today; Dom Joly – review

    A fun and furry flashback with the original ecowarriors; a double helping of Bill Nighy; gripping revelations from Hanif Kureishi; and Dom Joly on his best behaviour
  • Hanif Kureishi, Ellie Goulding, James May

    Today guest editors review – Radio 4 dishes up eggs over uneasy with Goulding, Kureishi and James May

    Christmas tradition dictates unqualified celebrities edit the flagship news show for five days, with results as skippable – and occasionally tasty – as festive leftovers
  • Hanif Kureishi

    Hanif Kureishi: accident ‘completely eradicated’ sense of self and privacy

    Author says he had to adjust to ‘becoming another person’ after injuries in Boxing Day fall last year

November 2023

  • Andy Malkinson pictured outside holding a red and black umbrella

    Andrew Malkinson, wrongly convicted of rape, to guest edit BBC’s Today

    Miscarriage of justice victim will be among programme’s Christmas editors which also include Hanif Kureishi and James May

April 2023

  • Hanif Kureishi.

    Hanif Kureishi to publish memoir about accident that left him paralysed

    Shattered, out in 2024, will expand on the material the Buddha of Suburbia author has been sharing on social media from his hospital bed since a fall in Rome last year

March 2023

  • Zoe Williams

    Taking drugs with your children? Gen Z won’t even want to share a beer with us

    Zoe Williams
    Hanif Kureishi talks of cocaine nights with his kids. He makes the whole issue sound simple. I can’t believe it is, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

January 2023

  • From despair to insight … novelist Hanif Kureishi in better health, at his London home.

    Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing

  • Kenan Malik

    Hanif Kureishi helped liberate British Asians from their imposed identities

    Kenan Malik
  • Novelist Hanif Kureishi at his home in west London in 2021.

    I sat up today. Like a Beckettian chattering mouth, all I can do is speak, but I can also listen

    Hanif Kureishi
  • Hanif Kureishi.

    Hanif Kureishi says he may never be able to walk or hold pen again after fall in Rome

October 2022

  • Salman Rushdie.

    British Library to host Salman Rushdie celebration event

  • ‘There were three of us in that marriage’ … Panorama: Princess Diana interview.

    100 years of the BBC: decade by decade
    Diana makes explosive revelations and Partridge devours the hand that feeds him: 100 years of the BBC, part eight

June 2022

  • Stephen Thompson, author

    Stephen Thompson obituary

    Screenwriter and novelist who won a Bafta for his BBC drama, Sitting in Limbo, about his brother’s experiences of being threatened with deportation

April 2022

  • Hanif Kureishi

    The books of my life
    Hanif Kureishi: ‘Racism makes people mad – it’s necessary to deal with this in fiction’

    The writer on Freudian dreams, Tom Sawyer, and what ER Braithwaite taught him about race

March 2022

  • Author Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years

  • Naveen Andrews in Santa Monica

    The G2 interview
    ‘Good times? I was out of it’: The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews on booze, drugs and baffling the world in Lost

May 2021

  • ‘Why is it we are so good at protests but we can’t organise a substantial leftwing political party? … the writer at his home.

    Hanif Kureishi: ‘I’d like to see a British Muslim Sopranos’

    As his new play The Spank opens in Italy, the writer talks about the power of ludicrous ideas, the crisis facing the middle class – and why he can’t get white liberals off his phone
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