The genre is often presumed to be one ‘for boys’. Novelists including Virginia Woolf and Georgette Heyer prove that women are just as capable of bold escapes and derring-do as men
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
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best books of the 21st century
Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000
May 2018
Book of the day
Pops by Michael Chabon review – what parenthood asks of a man
The prolific and prizewinning novelist reflects on the pram in the hall, what children can teach fathers and a trip to Paris men’s fashion week
Liu Xia: Paul Auster and JM Coetzee lead renewed calls for Chinese poet's release
Liu, who has never been charged with a crime, has been under house arrest in China since her late husband Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel peace prize in 2010
Books interview
Michael Chabon: ‘Parent properly and you’re doing yourself out of a job’
The Pulitzer prize-winner on combining writing with raising kids, his freakozoid tendencies and the authors he returns to
August 2017
Reading group
Michael Chabon webchat – your questions answered on sequels and scrambled eggs
Reading group
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: a charming novel about beautiful people bonking
Reading group
August's reading group: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Reading group
Reading group: which book about gay life should we read in August?
July 2017
This much I know
Michael Chabon: ‘I have a socialist approach to my regrets’
The writer, 54, shares his thoughts on grey hair, hard-working marriages, missed funerals and his fantasies about the demise of Donald Trump
May 2017
Top 10s
Top 10 campus novels
Natural theatres for intellectual ideas and human folly, universities have provided perfect stages for novelists from Kingsley Amis to Michael Chabon
February 2017
Critical eye
A Woman’s Work; Bad Dreams; Moonglow
What the critics thought of A Woman’s Work by Harriet Harman; Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley; Moonglow by Michael Chabon
The Guardian Books podcast
Michael Chabon on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – books podcast
The Pulitzer prize-winning novelist looks back on a modern classic at a Guardian book club event
Moonglow by Michael Chabon review – a novel posing as a family memoir
Chabon is uncharacteristically serious as he presents stories about his grandparents
January 2017
A life in ...
Michael Chabon: ‘Trump is like a random impulse generator’
Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon nominated for book critics award
Book of the day
Moonglow by Michael Chabon review – much more than a memoir
2017 the year ahead
Fiction to look out for in 2017
September 2016
Fall arts preview 2016
Fall books preview: the best American writing from Chabon to Safran Foer
After a lackluster start to the year, the autumn brings fiction from returning big names and non-fiction that takes on everything from education to segregation
