Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel review – a starry patchwork inspired by the dark days of Covid
Editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston round up 36 big literary names for a spirited Decameron-style collection of shaggy dog stories and tales of lost love
December 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 novels about novelists
From Louisa May Alcott to Philip Roth and Michael Chabon, writers of fiction have long been fascinated by the dramas of their own trade
July 2020
Love beyond sex, money and property: a case for friendship
Reading novels about groups of friends can be an emotional lifeline in times of isolation – from pandemic lockdown to the aftermath of divorce
November 2018
Observer New Review Q&A
Meg Wolitzer: ‘I feel I’m a feminist, so I write like a feminist’
The American novelist on female power, watching The Wife go from page to screen – and the politics of book design
July 2018
Book of the day
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer review – a timely study of activism
Second-wave feminism and the intersection between the political and the personal are explored in a lively novel that brings us up to Donald Trump’s America
June 2018
Book of the day
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer – review
A life in ...
Meg Wolitzer: ‘You go for what feels human, and it transcends a political moment’
November 2017
First take
What older, wiser women can teach us
Our pop culture expert shares words of wisdom from her mentors
March 2015
Children's books
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer - review
XoXo, BOOKWORM_98: 'the book got to me and at times, I simply had to put it down with the intensity of it all'
February 2015
Children's books
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer – review
Ayesha: 'Belzhar is a mind-blowing read and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it from cover to cover'
November 2014
Children's books
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer - review
Children's books
Meg Wolitzer: Why are teenage girls drawn to books about mental instability?
September 2013
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer – review
There's lightness and wit in an entertaining novel about six teenagers at summer camp and their later lives, writes Jessica Holland
August 2013
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer – review
A life in ...
Meg Wolitzer: 'The character is not standing for women everywhere. I had to write that on my forehead'
July 2011
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer – review
It's not quite Aristophanes, but a sex-strike comedy does make some serious points. By Carrie O'Grady
June 2011
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer – review
What makes the women of an American town suddenly go on a sex strike? The rather unconvincing supernatural cause doesn't spoil an otherwise warm, worldly and witty novel, writes Hermione Hoby
