In brief: Allegorizings; Chouette; Invisible Ink – reviews
Jan Morris conjures a remarkable life in her posthumous essay collection, Claire Oshetsky explores an unusual maternal love, and Patrick Modiano unravels a tantalising mystery
September 2016
Villa Triste by Patrick Modiano – new translation of Nobel prize-winner's small masterpiece
In this small masterpiece infused with nostalgia by the Nobel prize-winner, a man recalls his carefree summer with two friends at the outbreak of the Algerian war
January 2016
After the Circus by Patrick Modiano
Read an exclusive extract from the Nobel prize winner’s mysterious, romantic classic set on Parisian streets filled with dreamy unease and quiet menace – now available to English readers in a new translation by Mark Polizzotti
October 2015
A life in ...
Patrick Modiano: ‘I became a prisoner of my memories of Paris’
The books interview: The Nobel prizewinning writer on his new novel, the phantoms of his past and the destruction of the old quartiers
December 2014
Patrick Modiano accepts Nobel prize, confident of literature’s future
In his acceptance speech, novelist says he is convinced the writers of the future ‘will safeguard the succession’
November 2014
Books blog
Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
Extract: Flowers of Ruin by Patrick Modiano
The opening of a novella by the new Nobel laureate, published in the collection Suspended Sentences
Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano – three novellas from the Nobel laureate
He has been hailed as a contemporary Marcel Proust, but Modiano’s investigations into the moral history of the occupation make him a pure original. By Adam Thirlwell
October 2014
My hero
Patrick Modiano: an appreciation of the Nobel prize in literature winner
As the French writer Patrick Modiano surprises critics to take the 2014 Nobel prize in literature, Rupert Thomson salutes an author who is fascinated by the louche, ambiguous, shadowy world of the Occupation
