Lorrie Moore: ‘I would never read literature for comfort’
The American author on finding sympathy for Ted Hughes, a Palestinian take on Hamlet, and the joy of cookery books
June 2024
Books interview
Lorrie Moore: ‘I identify with Beth in Little Women, who dies’
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Zadie Smith, Matthew Perry and more
February 2024
On my radar
On my radar: Dave Eggers’s cultural highlights
The American author on whale watching, Kehinde Wiley’s hypnotic paintings and an indispensable Canadian singer-songwriter
June 2023
Book of the day
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore review – bringing out the dead
Lorrie Moore: ‘I’m just cruel. What can I tell you?’
July 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 stories about bored teenagers
Writers from Alice Munro to JD Salinger capture the restless ennui and dangerous passions of the do-nothing years before adulthood sets in
July 2020
Short and sweet: the best stories to read right now
Thought-provoking, intense and consumed in one sitting, do short stories make for a perfect reading experience? Chris Power finds out, and shares the all-time greats
January 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 books about new beginnings
From Virginia Woolf to Lorrie Moore and Diana Wynne Jones, fresh starts provide an endless source of inspiration for fiction
The writer on the influence of Maggie Nelson, ditching some Great American Novels and bingeing on Annie Ernaux
September 2018
Acclaimed authors pen letter in protest at 'forced resignation' of Ian Buruma
Joyce Carol Oates, Ian McEwan, and others expressed dismay over Buruma’s departure from the New York Review of Books
June 2018
See What Can Be Done by Lorrie Moore – wit without malice
A collection of astringent, exhilarating essays covers advice for aspiring writers, The Wire and other TV series and the reputation of literary greats
May 2018
See What Can Be Done by Lorrie Moore review – marvellously nuanced
Lorrie Moore on political correctness, writing and why she's not worried by Trump
December 2017
Nonfiction to look out for in 2018
Spies, suffragettes and Mary Shelley feature heavily in next year’s nonfiction lists – along with essays from the likes of Zadie Smith, Graham Swift and Amos Oz
May 2016
Ask a bibliotherapist: how books can help soothe troubled minds
In answer to readers’ queries, a bibliotherapist at the School of Life in Australia prescribes reading material designed to calm and inspire
February 2016
Top 10s
Top 10 books about cancer
Treatment of this cruel disease has advanced hugely in recent years, but writers from Philip Roth to Christopher Hitchens show the awful human cost it still exacts
October 2015
The crush
Crush of the week: Lorrie Moore
‘The world in her stories is the real one, rendered more honest, certainly more witty and human’
April 2015
Books blog
Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
February 2015
Bark by Lorrie Moore review: humans at their most vulnerable
The author is still capable of surprise with her offbeat, funny, painful stories of middle-class Americans with midlife worries
