The Guardian view on prescience in novels: reading the future
Editorial: Literature can be surprisingly accurate in predicting what lies ahead
July 2019
Zed by Joanna Kavenna review – death by algorithm
Book of the day
Zed by Joanna Kavenna review – a brilliant big-tech dystopia
June 2018
Made in ...
Joanna Kavenna on Loughborough: ‘We were Arctic explorers in our muddy playground’
The novelist revisits the city where she grew up and discovered the limitless world of reading – even in the shower
July 2016
Critical eye
Book reviews roundup: Peacock and Vine; In the Darkroom; A Field Guide to Reality
What the critics thought of Peacock and Vine by AS Byatt, In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi and A Field Guide to Reality by Joanna Kavenna
A Field Guide to Reality by Joanna Kavenna review – into the quantum Wonderland
A quirky quest for the nature of cosmic truth in an alternative Oxford
Meet the author
Joanna Kavenna: ‘History is littered with people who have said, “This is the only reality”’
The award-winning novelist on the beauty and agonies of life, grief and why philosophy should be for everyone
August 2012
Come to the Edge by Joanna Kavenna – review
The term 'open house' takes on a whole new meaning in this modern-day morality tale of stealing from the rich to give to the poor, writes Kate Kellaway
July 2012
The Guardian Books podcast
Guardian Books podcast: The pursuit of happiness
Is positive thinking the route to happiness? Oliver Burkeman and Jules Evans make the case for looking on the dark side, while the narrator of Joanna Kavenna's latest novel takes off in search of a new way of living
April 2011
Oil stories
Barthelme by Joanna Kavenna
It's about time someone sorted this oil business out. Joanna Kavenna brings us the exclusive story of the world's first truly ethical oil company
January 2011
Home births: A womb of my own
In the 1960s, one in three women in the UK gave birth at home; now the figure is less than 3%. But why?
June 2010
Author, author
Author, author: Joanna Kavenna
Joanna Kavenna reads from The Birth of Love
Joanna Kavenna: 'When I got pregnant I wanted to write something about the very bizarre process'
The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna
May 2010
The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna
The trials of motherhood are explored through multiple narratives in this brave and engrossing novel, writes Rachel Cusk
April 2010
Ms Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
Joanna Kavenna enjoys a delicate collection of stories
September 2008
Wakey-up time
Review: The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer's portrait of four women emerging from babyland impresses Joanna Kavenna
August 2008
Franz Kafka, party animal
Review: Excavating Kafka by James Hawes Life wasn't really such a trial for the supposedly tortured artist, says his new biographer. Joanna Kavenna explains
July 2008
Where have all the psychos gone?
Review: Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown
Ignore what its crime writers say: it turns out Sweden isn't brimming with neo-Nazis, paedophiles and jihadis after all
