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Literary criticism

July 2024

  • A black and white image of Marlon Brando in a cap-sleeved T-shirt.

    Book of the day
    Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lions

  • Edna O'Brien at her home in London.

    Edna O’Brien: her fearlessness paved the way for today’s female Irish writers

  • Thom Gunn, in his early 40s, with dark hair and beard, wearing a tie-dye vest in what looks like a hotel bar with a chandelier in the background

    Book of the day
    Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott review – the poet laureate of Haight-Ashbury

  • Frederick Crews posing for a photo at his home in Berkeley, California on August 14, 2017.

    Frederick Crews obituary

May 2024

  • Paul Auster.

    ‘Getting a book idea feels like a buzz in the head’: Paul Auster – a life in quotes

    The author of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 has died at the age of 77. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews he gave throughout his life

April 2024

  • Deirdre Madden, Hanif Abdurraqib and Kathryn Scanlan.

    Eight writers win ‘freedom and time to write’ with $175,000 Windham-Campbell prizes

    Honours that span fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry go to practitioners around the world including novelist Deirdre Madden and poet Jen Hadfield

March 2024

  • Portrait Of Lord Byron<br>Colorized engraving shows a portrait of British poet and writer George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), early 1800s. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

    Byron: A Life in Ten Letters review – dispatches from a lusty life

  • illustration by Bill Bragg

    ‘End of the world vibes’: why culture can’t stop thinking about apocalypse

February 2024

  • A book on Donald Trump by New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman is displayed at a bookstore.

    The Washington Book review: Carlos Lozada on Trump and other targets

    The New York Times critic won a Pulitzer for a reason – he knows better than anyone how to read the US political scene
  • Portrait of the British poet known as Lord Byron.

    Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer review – wrong but Romantic

    An impressively rounded portrait of the raucous and manipulative poet, venereal scars and all
  • Hannah Arendt in 1949.

    Observer book of the week
    We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – review

    The rise of rightwing populists has sparked renewed interest in the political philosopher’s writing on totalitarianism, and Lyndsey Stonebridge’s timely biography is compelling and original

December 2023

  • Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem in France in November 1968.

    African writer ruined by row with Graham Greene finally gets chance to shine

  • One of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

    Book of the day
    The Notebook by Roland Allen review – notes on living

October 2023

  • John Sutherland author photo (c) Sarah M. Lee

    Triggered Literature by John Sutherland review – a cautious approach

  • picture of angry people

    Orwellian nightmares: What I learned about today’s rage culture from rewriting 1984

September 2023

  • Mariah Gale and Marianne Oldham in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe.

    What Was Shakespeare Really Like? by Stanley Wells review – Shakespearean speculation

    An eminent scholar tries to imagine the great playwright’s character and tastes. But can we really know the bard?

August 2023

  • American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist James Baldwin at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, 1979.

    Book of the day
    Nothing Ever Just Disappears review – fascinating journeys into LGBTQ+ courage

    Diarmuid Hester’s travelogue celebrates the history of queer spaces in 20th century subculture, from Josephine Baker’s Paris to EM Forster’s Cambridge

July 2023

  • Eileen Orwell.

    Looking for Eileen: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story

    Anna Funder explains how the search for Eileen O’Shaughnessy, a compelling figure strangely absent from Orwell’s writing, illuminated her own life

June 2023

  • An AI-generated image of William Shakespeare as a woman.

    Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies review – in search of the bard

    Diligent scholarship meets provocation and irreverence in Elizabeth Winkler’s highly entertaining quest to uncover the ‘real’ Shakespeare

May 2023

  • Bruno Schulz in 1935

    Bruno Schulz: An Artist, A Murder, and the Hijacking of History review – an extraordinary mind and a cruel death

    Benjamin Balint’s biography of ‘writer’s writer’ Bruno Schulz conjures the fascinating life and afterlife of a genre-defying author and artist
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