UK voter ID laws attack ‘democratic rights of people of colour’, say artists in open letter
Exclusive: Lenny Henry, Anish Kapoor and Marianne Jean-Baptiste among those calling for Keir Starmer to scrap rules
May 2024
Gaza vote divides Society of Authors after call to condemn Israeli military action
Extraordinary general meeting of the UK writers’ union narrowly voted against making an official protest at violence that has killed ‘at least 95 journalists and media workers’
September 2023
The Instagram photos of Jarvis Cocker, Kamila Shamsie, Rachel Whiteread and other creatives – in pictures
Instagram: surprising images from creatives
June 2023
Audiobook of the week
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie audiobook review – women driven apart
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Stephen King, Kamila Shamsie and more
May 2023
The books of my life
Kamila Shamsie: ‘There’s nothing more comforting than Seinfeld scripts’
The novelist on the dangerous allure of Gone With the Wind, taking comfort in comedy and discovering George Eliot’s Middlemarch
September 2022
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie review – anatomy of a friendship
Hilary Mantel remembered: ‘She was the queen of literature’
Book of the day
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie review – Karachi to London
Kamila Shamsie on the crisis in British politics: ‘What kind of democracy is this?’
August 2022
Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O’Farrell to Cormac McCarthy
It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide
July 2022
Lessons in humanity for Tory leadership contenders
Top 10s
Top 10 books about twins
March 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 world-spanning novels
Writers from David Mitchell to Graham Greene and Rachel Kushner tell stories that seek out interconnectedness, testing and pulling at the idea of nationhood
February 2022
‘It felt horrific to be in Britain as a Muslim after 9/11’: Pankaj Mishra and Kamila Shamsie in conversation
The writers discuss problems of representation, class, the culture wars and how fiction is a great way to ask difficult questions
November 2021
Top 10s
From Paradise Lost to the Lord of the Rings: top 10 epics in fiction
From classic tales such as Paradise Lost to ‘counter-epics’ by Anne Carson and Tim O’Brien, these stories lend real grandeur to their subjects
April 2020
Women's prize at 25: what it is like to win by Zadie Smith, Naomi Alderman and more
Winning authors explain how the award changed their lives and share their favourite books by women
September 2019
Hundreds of authors protest after Kamila Shamsie's book award is revoked
Kamila Shamsie’s book award withdrawn over her part in Israel boycott
August 2019
Impossible times for political novels
Letters:Peter Taylor-Gooby and Doug Sandle respond to Dorian Lynskey’s article on the death of the political novel
