From Elena Ferrante to Taffy Brodesser-Akner,writers have captured the pressures that being a mother can inflict on marriage and on the creative self
August 2021
Top 10s
‘You think wrong!’: top 10 rants in literature
Some distrust kvetching in print, but writers from Shakespeare to Valerie Solanas show there’s nothing wrong with constructive – and even destructive – criticism
July 2021
On my radar
On my radar: Lucy Ellmann’s cultural highlights
The prize-winning author of Ducks, Newburyport on Richard Pryor, her favourite new fiction – and her love of fox cubs
June 2021
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann review – a funny and furious womanifesto
The novelist rails against everything from Agatha Christie to the US Capitol attack – and, above all, men – in her joyously eclectic essay collection
August 2020
Lucy Ellmann lands James Tait Black prize, 38 years after her father's win
The mostly single-sentence novel Ducks, Newburyport scoops £10,000 award for its piercing portrait of Trump’s America
May 2020
Orwell prize for fiction shortlist replays 2019 Booker prize contest
I wish more people would read
I wish more people would read ... Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
April 2020
'Biography' of Nineteen Eighty-Four leads Orwell prize longlist
Dorian Lynskey’s The Ministry of Truth is among the contenders for the political writing award named after the dystopian classic’s author
February 2020
‘Surreal immediacy’: how a 1,000-page novel became a 45-hour audiobook
Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport has attracted much attention for its length, but one publisher believes the spoken word might be its perfect medium
December 2019
Books interview
Lucy Ellmann: ‘We need to raise the level of discourse’
The author of the prize-winning Ducks, Newburyport on why she prefers books written before Hiroshima
November 2019
One long sentence, 1,000 pages: Lucy Ellmann 'masterpiece' wins Goldsmiths prize
Ducks, Newburyport wins £10,000 prize for fiction that ‘breaks the mould’ of the novel, a month after missing out on the Booker
October 2019
Booker prize shortlist 2019: who to put your money on
The Guardian Books podcast
'I want world domination!' Lucy Ellmann on her Booker behemoth Ducks, Newburyport – books podcast
How to write a Booker contender – by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and others
Lucy Ellmann's long sentence leads to Goldsmiths shortlist
September 2019
Book clinic
Book clinic: can you recommend modern fiction to replace my love of classics?
Booker prize: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale sequel makes shortlist
July 2019
Not read them yet? A cheat's guide to the 2019 Booker prize longlist
This year’s ‘Booker’s dozen’ includes two former winners as well as an international array of acclaimed fiction. Here’s what you need to know
Handmaid's Tale sequel leads 'exacting' 2019 Booker prize longlist
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments – not published until September – is chosen alongside 12 other ‘credible winners’ including Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann review – pushes narrative to its limits
An Ohio housewife ruminates on her past in a complex novel
