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James Frey

November 2019

  • Daniel Kaluuya,Jodie Turner-Smith<br>This image released by Universal Pictures shows Daniel Kaluuya as Slim, left, and Jodie Turner-Smith as Queen from the film “Queen &amp; Slim,” directed by Melina Matsoukas. (Andre D. Wagner/Universal Pictures via AP)

    Queen & Slim review – stylish lovers on the run drama is hit and miss

    A first date goes horribly wrong in a visually arresting romance, starring a charismatic Daniel Kaluuya, that can’t quite make it to the finish line

August 2019

  • A Million Little Pieces - film still

    A Million Little Pieces review – glossy addiction drama rings hollow

  • Sam Taylor-Johnson

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Sam Taylor-Johnson: ‘I’ve lost people very dear to me through addiction’

December 2018

  • Sian Cain

    There’s more to this bad fiction than bad sex – between the lines is privilege

    Sian Cain
  • James Frey

    James Frey wins bad sex in fiction award for ‘dubious’ Katerina

November 2018

  • ‘If it continued, I worried, I would be completely emptied out.’ …Haruki Murakami.

    Haruki Murakami and James Frey lead all-male shortlist for bad sex award

    Annual prize intended to show up the worst sexual description in fiction singles out some famous names for a second time – but no women

September 2018

  • James Frey Digested Read illustration

    Digested read
    Katerina by James Frey – digested read

  • James Frey c Matt Jordan USE THIS ONE

    Katerina by James Frey review – a glorification of masculine privilege

November 2017

  • Terrifying ... Catherine Russell as Nurse Ratched in a theatrical adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about mental hospitals

    From the horrors of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to hopeful stories of recovery, here are some of the best books about these much feared institutions

July 2016

  • Gay Talese

    The week in books
    The Voyeur’s Motel and other unlikely stories

    When is a true story not a true story? Ask Gay Talese, Alex Malarkey or Lewis Wolpert

November 2014

  • James Frey and Joshua

    Children's books
    James Frey talks about Endgame - children's books podcast

    James Frey is giving $3 million of his own money as a prize for those who can solve the puzzles that run through his new trilogy Endgame. Here he tells site member JBOO1698 all about his crazy, magical idea – and his obsession with hidden history

January 2014

  • James Frey

    James Frey wins $2m deal for young adult SF novel

    Endgame, by the controversial author of A Million Little Pieces, sold in joint publishing and film deal

February 2013

  • A woman rubbing her foot against a man's leg

    The Romantic Economist by William Nicolson – review

    The author conducts his own love life here as an experiment in economics. But is he just playing Footsie, asks Tim Lewis

March 2012

  • Multi-screen reading

    Factual fiction: writing in an information age

    Imaginative writing now inhabits a multi-screeen world, and novels that don't acknowledge this struggle to reflect our new era

November 2011

  • The Final Testament of The Holy Bible by James Frey: Bad sex award extract

    A religious experience in The Final Testament of The Holy Bible earns James Frey a nomination for the 2011 Bad sex award

April 2011

  • james frey holy bible

    Cif belief
    The Final Testament of the Holy Bible is shocking. Shockingly bad, that is

    Mark Vernon
    Mark Vernon: The problem with James Frey's book isn't blasphemy per se. Good blasphemy, unlike this adolescent theology, is valuable
  • James Frey

    The G2 interview
    James Frey: 'I always wanted to be the outlaw'

    The controversial novelist talks about truth, fiction and his new book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

    • Digested read
      Digested read: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey

    • The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review

    • The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey - review

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