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Katherine Boo

May 2020

  • Review Books Web Hay Lees

    Books to broaden your horizons, by Hilary Mantel, Simon Schama, Lisa Taddeo and more

    If you currently feel confined, reading can open up new worlds. Authors and thinkers at this year’s Hay Festival Digital recommend books to take you on a journey

March 2019

  • Worker on the television tower of the New York City’s Empire State Building in 1950.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about building cities

    From Mary Beard’s Roman history to Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction, Jonathan Carr chooses the best writing about citizens’ eternal challenges

November 2014

  • Behind The Beautiful Forevers

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers review – important stories forcefully told

    David Hare’s adaptation of Katherine Boo’s acclaimed book breaks new ground for the National, writes Susannah Clapp
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers review – a triumph for David Hare and Meera Syal

    Meticulously detailing the endless grind of Mumbai slum life helps this spirited adaptation of Katherine Boo’s award-winning reportage avoid any danger of quaintness, writes Michael Billington
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers: a spotlight on Mumbai’s invisible poor

    As David Hare brings Katherine Boo’s acclaimed account of Mumbai’s slumdwellers to the stage, Sunil Khilnani reflects on what it tells us about the precarious existence of many in boom-time India

December 2012

  • Kevin Powers

    How we chose the winner of the Guardian first book award

    William Dalrymple explains how the judges for the Guardian first book award 2012 came to their decision

November 2012

  • An Abby Wright illustration of a women reading a book outside in the snow

    2012 in review
    Books of the year 2012

    From Zadie Smith's new novel to Robert Macfarlane's journeys on foot and memoirs by Edna O'Brien and Salman Rushdie… Which books have most impressed our writers this year?

  • George Mallory

    Into the Silence author Wade Davis wins Samuel Johnson award

    'Momentous' non-fiction book meticulously details hardships of expeditions and relationship between British and Tibetans

  • Slum near the airport in Mumbai

    The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work

    From the slums of Mumbai to the sink estates of Aberdeen, the frontline in Iraq to the revolution in Libya – plus a hit novel about US college baseball – the titles on this year's shortlist confront some of the most urgent issues of recent years

June 2012

  • Girl in a Mumbai slum

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review

    An American view of a Mumbai slum impresses Amit Chaudhuri
  • Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali pictured in the Bandra slum where she lives with her family.

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review

    The squalid margins of Mumbai are brilliantly pinned to the page, writes William Dalrymple
  • Katherine Boo

    Saturday interview
    Katherine Boo: Slum dweller

    Susanna Rustin: Katherine Boo won a Pulitzer for writing about the poor and the vulnerable. She spent three years in a Mumbai slum for her new book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Why bother, if she thinks that all she can make is 'small differences'?
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