The Candy House by Jennifer Egan review – information overload
Jennifer Egan: ‘Twitter doesn’t make me feel optimistic about human nature’
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best books of the 21st century
Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000
January 2019
Top 10s
Top 10 musical novels
Novelist Rebecca Kauffman chooses work by authors from Ann Patchett to Zadie Smith resounding with music and musicians
May 2018
Top 10s
Top 10 books to help you survive the digital age
In brief: The Wind at My Back; Manhattan Beach; Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous – reviews
April 2018
Middlemarch: Jennifer Egan on how George Eliot’s unorthodox love life shaped her masterpiece
The Middlemarch author found fulfilment in a relationship that society shunned – no wonder her study of marriage captures a climate of change
November 2017
Best books of 2017
Best books of 2017 – part two
The Guardian Books podcast
Jennifer Egan and M John Harrison – books podcast
October 2017
Critical eye
Reviews roundup: Manhattan Beach; The Rub of Time; and Everybody Lies
What the critics thought of Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach; Martin Amis’s The Rub of Time and Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
September 2017
Book of the day
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan review – remarkable cinematic scope
The author of A Visit from the Goon Squad returns with a more conventional historical novel following the lives of a family in Brooklyn during and after the Depression
Jennifer Egan: ‘I was never a hot, young writer. But then I had a quantum leap’
Six years after winning a Pulitzer with the ‘postmodern’ A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan reveals why she has now embraced the virtues of traditional storytelling
National Book awards 2017: Jesmyn Ward and Jennifer Egan among finalists
The longlist for the biggest prize in American literature includes previous finalists as well as a host of debut authors
June 2016
Top 10s
Top 10 New York novels
From Edith Wharton to Jennifer Egan, the city has inspired countless stories, all of them sharing one major character – the metropolis itself
Damien Walter's weird things
Systems fiction: a novel way to think about the present
Seen in literary fiction as well as SF, this genre weaves together complex debates in a way that can offer a clearer view of the future – think Atwood, DeLillo and Asimov
Top 10s
Top 10 books about middle age
Finding work that confronts this difficult stage of life with honesty and wisdom is not easy – but these writers show it can be done
May 2016
Stephen King joins hundreds of authors petitioning against Donald Trump
More than 450 writers, including Colm Tóibín, Geraldine Brooks and Lydia Davis express ‘unequivocal’ opposition to his presidential candidacy
January 2015
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao declared 21st century’s best novel so far
Junot Díaz’s mix of ‘history, comics, sci-fi, and magic realism ‘ tops BBC Culture poll of US critics on the best fiction since 2000
November 2014
Jennifer Egan: ‘Writing is an act of faith’ against the rise of technology
Author and editor of The Best American Short Stories 2014 explores the idea of anxiety at a Q&A to mark this year’s collection of hard-hitting stories
July 2014
Top 10s
Top 10 holidays in fiction
From James Salter to Lorrie Moore and Patricia Highsmith, novelist Emma Straub is our guide for a tour of the best-imagined vacations
