This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years
Lisa Allardice
Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’
April 2024
Book of the day
James by Percival Everett review – a gripping reimagining of Huckleberry Finn
‘I’d love a scathing review’: novelist Percival Everett on American Fiction and rewriting Huckleberry Finn
March 2024
And the winner for best book that inspired a best picture nominee is …
From Oppenheimer to Poor Things, many of this year’s Oscar frontrunners started life as books, including comprehensive works of nonfiction and a madcap, faux Victorian memoir
January 2024
How Cord Jefferson turned a novel about race into American Fiction – the year’s buzziest comedy
2024 culture preview
Fiction to look out for in 2024
April 2023
What we're reading
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April
Booker shortlistee and UK playwright among winners of Windham-Campbell prizes
March 2023
Dr No by Percival Everett review – serious comedy
Book of the day
Dr No by Percival Everett review – something out of nothing
October 2022
‘The story had been stirring in me for most of my life’: How I wrote a Booker-shortlisted novel
NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Alan Garner and others reveal the inspiration for the books up for this year’s award
September 2022
‘I’ve no idea how we’ll pick a winner’: the challenge of a spectacular Booker shortlist
From a surreal African kingdom to a Sri Lankan afterlife, via murder, morality, grief and healing … One of this year’s prize judges assesses the six finalists they must choose between
July 2022
Booker prize longlist of 13 writers aged 20 to 87 announced
List comprises 13 writers of fiction, from NoViolet Bulawayo to Leila Mottley, described as ‘stimulating, surprising, nourishing’ by judging panel
March 2022
Books interview
Percival Everett: ‘I’d love to write a novel everyone hated’
The American novelist on his stereotyping of white characters, the breadth of the black experience in modern literature, and why he always returns to The Way of All Flesh
March 2021
Book of the day
Damned If I Do by Percival Everett review – sardonic take on identity politics
This subtle, original collection of short stories quietly subverts racial stereotypes
September 2008
Wounded
Review: Wounded by Percival Everett Everett's descriptions of the Red Desert and the mechanics of horseriding are wonderfully involving
August 2008
Wounded by Percival Everett
Review: Wounded by Percival Everett Everett melds his gripping western whodunnit into a grisly, dramatic and unsparing inquiry into contemporary prejudice says Robert Collins
February 2007
Alone in the wilds of Wyoming
Percival Everett's Wounded asks the big questions about the individual's place in the world, says Jay Parini.
May 2005
Jesus 19 and Ted's big adventure
Darryl Pinckney enjoys Percival Everett's riotous satire on modern times, American Desert.
