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’
January 2024
2024 culture preview
Fiction to look out for in 2024
The first great lockdown novel, new tales from David Nicholls, Sarah Perry and Percival Everett, and Rachel Kushner’s contender for the Booker… next year promises to be special
March 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 world-spanning novels
Writers from David Mitchell to Graham Greene and Rachel Kushner tell stories that seek out interconnectedness, testing and pulling at the idea of nationhood
June 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about public spaces
From Toni Morrison and Zadie Smith to Peter Benchley, novelist Jonathan Lee chooses books that celebrate areas where strangers can mingle and be less alone
April 2021
On my radar
On my radar: Rachel Kushner’s cultural highlights
The acclaimed essayist and novelist on the genius of Don DeLillo, the temptation of motorbikes, and being swept away by CocoRosie
March 2021
Book of the day
The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner review – New Journalism given a new lease of life
The US novelist mixes grit with gloss in sharp examinations of artists and writers – and her wild youth
January 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about children fending for themselves
Facing up to the world without adult support is present in Greek myths and remains a key theme in authors from Anna Burns to Douglas Stuart and Rachel Kushner
December 2018
Tell me more: a conversation special
Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’
The Scottish first minister and the author discuss the power of stories, US politics and prisons
October 2018
How I write: Man Booker shortlist authors reveal their inspirations
Books that made me
Rachel Kushner: ‘The last book that made me cry? The Brothers Karamazov'
September 2018
The Guardian Books podcast
Sarah Waters, John Boyne and the 2018 Man Booker prize shortlist – books podcast
As The Little Stranger opens in cinemas, its author considers screen adaptations. Boyne discusses his novel of desperate ambitions – and we discuss the Booker finalists
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
Man Booker 2018: Daisy Johnson becomes youngest ever author shortlisted for prize
The 27-year-old British author’s debut Everything Under is up for the £50,000 award, while Michael Ondaatje and the first nominated graphic novel are knocked out
August 2018
The Guardian Books podcast
Daisy Johnson and Michael Hughes on classical adaptations – books podcast
Books that made me
Daisy Johnson: ‘When I’m stressed out, I read The Shining’
July 2018
Women can be killers, not adulterers: Hollywood's heroine problem
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson review – a stunning debut novel
The Guardian Books podcast
Michael Ondaatje and the Booker longlist – books podcast