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Michael Ondaatje

April 2024

  • Michael Ondaatje

    Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

    A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje; The Silence by Gillian Clarke; Joy in Service on Rue Tagore by Paul Muldoon; May Day by Jackie Kay; I Cannot Be Good Until You Say It by Sanah Ahsan; Grief’s Alphabet by Carrie Etter

March 2024

  • Michael Ondaatje

    A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje review – a connoisseur of atmospheres

    The author of The English Patient returns to poetry with a valedictory collection that is at home with the unknown and the romance of the incomplete

October 2022

  • Shehan Karunatilaka, who won the 2022 Booker prize on Monday for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

    ‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams

    Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better

November 2021

  • Ian McKellen in the 2013 film of Lord of the Rings.

    Top 10s
    From Paradise Lost to the Lord of the Rings: top 10 epics in fiction

    From classic tales such as Paradise Lost to ‘counter-epics’ by Anne Carson and Tim O’Brien, these stories lend real grandeur to their subjects

October 2021

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role of the film Capote.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 true crime novels

    Adding 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

August 2021

  • The English Patient - 1996<br>The English Patient - 1996 No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Phil Bray/Tiger Moth/Miramax/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5885464u) Kristin Scott Thomas, Ralph Fiennes The English Patient - 1996 Director: Anthony Minghella Tiger Moth/Miramax Scene Still Drama Le Patient anglais

    Top 10s
    Top 10 bookworms in fiction

    If you’re reading a novel, the chances are you’ll be able to relate to characters who love reading, too. These works showcase some of literature’s finest bibliophiles

December 2020

  • Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of The Age of Innocence.

    Books blog
    The sexiest moments in literature that aren't sex scenes

    With the Bad sex in fiction award cancelled this year, we celebrate authors from Jeanette Winterson to Jane Austen who can charge the dryest scenes with sensuality

September 2020

  • A young visitor gets a head start at the Hay Festival.

    Top authors hope you’ll give this book away to change young lives

    Philip Pullman, Robert Macfarlane and 21 others give backing to literacy charity Room to Read in new anthology the Gifts of Reading

March 2019

  • Worker on the television tower of the New York City’s Empire State Building in 1950.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about building cities

    From Mary Beard’s Roman history to Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction, Jonathan Carr chooses the best writing about citizens’ eternal challenges

November 2018

  • Mark Lawson

    Books blog
    How the sports book of the year reached the right result – with a dead heat

    Mark Lawson
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    Reading group
    Choose your book of 2018 for us to read this December

September 2018

  • Sian Cain

    Books blog
    Man Booker prize shortlist narrows the field – and also its sights?

    Sian Cain
    The longlist for this year’s award had a daring reach, but the final six contenders return readers to rather more conventional territory

July 2018

  • Michael Ondaatje, winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize with The English Patient.

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Michael Ondaatje and the Booker longlist – books podcast

  • Nick Drnaso – the first graphic novelist ever to be nominated for the Man Booker prize.

    Man Booker prize 2018 longlist includes graphic novel for the first time

  • Michael Ondaatje, winner of the Golden Man Booker prize with The English Patient.

    ‘It's the book that gave me freedom’: Michael Ondaatje on The English Patient

  • Michael Ondaatje

    The English Patient wins public poll of best Man Booker in 50 years

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Kamila Shamsie’s cultural highlights

  • Best summer books 2018, as picked by writers – part one

June 2018

  • Residents inspect bomb damage to houses in London during the blitz.

    Book of the day
    Warlight by Michael Ondaatje review – a novel shrouded in secrecy

  • ‘Extraordinarily intense’: Michael Ondaatje.

    Warlight by Michael Ondaatje review – magic from a past master

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