Marlon James
The latest news, reviews and comment on 2015 Man Booker prize winner Marlon James
Rory Stewart, Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James announced for Hay festival 2024
The UK literary festival unveils 29 taster events next year and plans to focus on ‘global themes and the impact of issues on the world’
Top 10s
Top 10 books about chosen familiesSwitching focus from conventional emotional ties, writers from George Eliot to Hanya Yanagihara show there are other stories to tell, just as profound
In brief: Lady MacBethad; Inshallah United; Moon Witch, Spider King – reviews
A distinctive reimagining of dark Scottish history; a thoughtful celebration of faith and football; and the second novel in Marlon James’s immense Dark Star trilogy
Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James review – the lion, the witch and the lost child
Marlon James: ‘Violence is violent and sex is sexy. You are supposed to be appalled’
Top 10s
Top 10 true crime novelsAdding an intense layer of meaning to well-known facts, authors including Truman Capote, Kate Summerscale and Gordon Burn raise this genre far above its grubby reputation
The Audio Long Read
Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals – podcast Its knack for creating tension and controversy has helped it remain an energising force in publishing for more than 50 years – but how do writers, publishers and judges cope with the annual agony of the Booker?
The long read
Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandalsThe long read: Its knack for creating tension and controversy has helped it remain an energising force in publishing for more than 50 years – but how do writers, publishers and judges cope with the annual agony of the Booker?
Reading group
The end of A Brief History of Seven Killings – and our reading groupReading group
A Brief History of Seven Killings: unwieldy, occasionally tedious – and magnificentReading group
A Brief History of Seven Killings is shocking but not gratuitousReading group
Reading group: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is our October book
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
Lockdown culture
Novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escapeFrom Hilary Mantel to Kazuo Ishiguro and Marlon James to Sebastian Barry, writers share their favourite literary comforts
In brief: House of Trelawney; Black Leopard, Red Wolf; How to Argue With a Racist – reviews
A satirical swipe at the aristocracy, Marlon James’s vicious African fantasy, and a vital rejection of racism
The look I love
Marlon James: ‘I’m not saying I go commando – but wearing pants would be a cop-out’The Man-Booker winner on the freedom of wearing dresses, what he wears to write – and why he always asks what Paul Simonon of the Clash would wear
Book clinic
Book clinic: which European fiction will revive my love of modernist novels?Author and critic Alex Preston recommends fiction for fans of modernism
Colin Grant: ‘We’re still living with slavery’
Marlon James: ‘I underwent gay exorcism in Pentecostal church in Jamaica’
Book of the day
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James review – violent and clichedThe Man Booker winner calls his fantasy trilogy an ‘African Game of Thrones’. The gore is there, but where’s the subtlety?
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The Audio Long ReadInside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals – podcastIts knack for creating tension and controversy has helped it remain an energising force in publishing for more than 50 years – but how do writers, publishers and judges cope with the annual agony of the Booker?
The long readInside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandalsThe long read: Its knack for creating tension and controversy has helped it remain an energising force in publishing for more than 50 years – but how do writers, publishers and judges cope with the annual agony of the Booker?
