Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Middlemarch is about everything, for every person, at every age’
The novelist on taking lessons from Doris Lessing, being inspired by John Steinbeck and why she can no longer read JD Salinger
September 2022
Rare signed edition of The Catcher in the Rye on sale for £225,000
JD Salinger did not want his friends cashing in, so inscribed copy of classic novel is one of the hardest titles for collectors to acquire
April 2022
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
August 2021
Top 10s
‘You think wrong!’: top 10 rants in literature
Some distrust kvetching in print, but writers from Shakespeare to Valerie Solanas show there’s nothing wrong with constructive – and even destructive – criticism
July 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 stories about bored teenagers
Writers from Alice Munro to JD Salinger capture the restless ennui and dangerous passions of the do-nothing years before adulthood sets in
April 2020
Books that made me
Sally Rooney: 'I want the next thing I do to be the best thing I’ve ever done'
The Normal People author on the joy of Jeeves and the influence of JD Salinger’s Franny and Zooey
February 2020
My New York Year (aka My Salinger Year) review – bafflingly insipid literary memoir clunks hard
Based on Joanna Rakoff’s book, this simpering knock-off of The Devil Wears Prada is so wet you could shoot snipe off it
October 2019
JD Salinger exhibition to unveil photographs, letters and notebooks
New York Public Library exhibit will show a mix of personal and literary effects, and will run for three months
August 2019
JD Salinger estate finally agrees to ebook editions
From everyteen to annoying: are today's young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye?
May 2019
Top 10s
Top 10 teenage friendships in fiction – from Dickens to Ferrante
From Great Expectations’s Pip and Estella to My Brilliant Friend’s Elena and Lina, these volatile years have inspired many brilliant novels
February 2019
Book clinic
Book clinic: what shall I read while my teenager goes off the rails?
The Guardian Books podcast
Jason Reynolds and JD Salinger's posthumous return – books podcast
Matt Salinger: ‘My father was writing for 50 years without publishing. That’s a lot of material’
JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms
October 2018
The Guardian view on modern writers: the myth of the reclusive author
Editorial: These days, most writers cannot afford to live secluded from their public. But when a very private author like Thomas Harris announces a new novel, there’s always special excitement
September 2018
JD Salinger's teenage lover challenges her 'predator' reputation
Joyce Maynard, now 65, has published a new essay that asks if the #MeToo movement will allow her to tell her side of the story
April 2018
Ranked
From Niall Horan's toast to Russell Crowe’s jockstrap: celebrity auction items – ranked!
Want to make loads of money? Try selling something – anything – that once belonged to a famous person. Here are 10 of the more unusual examples
December 2017
'If only I'd been warned!' - writers choose books to give to their younger selves
Julian Barnes, Margaret Drabble, Tessa Hadley, David Nicholls and others choose reading matter that would have been useful when young
February 2017
Fictional characters make 'experiential crossings' into real life, study finds
A fifth of readers report characters from novels cropping up in their daily lives, hearing their voices even after putting books aside
