Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation
‘Getting a book idea feels like a buzz in the head’: Paul Auster – a life in quotes
August 2022
Hundreds of authors to read from Salman Rushdie’s works in show of solidarity
The ‘Stand with Salman’ event in New York mirrors a public reading of The Satanic Verses that took place after the fatwa was issued in 1989
June 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 books about terrible jobs
Whether living as a caveman in a theme park or writing self-help copy for rice cracker packets, literature has many memorably awful occupations
November 2021
The books of my life
Siri Hustvedt: ‘I responded viscerally to De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex’
The US author on becoming a feminist, growing into Gertrude Stein, and the comfort of folk tales
April 2019
How to survive after Fleabag: a cultural guide
Duchamp’s Fountain and the feminist avant garde in New York
March 2019
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt review – who tells the story?
A novelist looks back at her younger self in 1970s New York in this smart investigation of misogyny, authority and the nature of fiction
Book of the day
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt – review
Layers of memory and self, real and imagined, reveal deep patterns in this complex novel
Siri Hustvedt: ‘I’m writing for my life’
She has spent her life carving out a career as a writer of intellect in a world still dominated by men. Here, Siri Hustvedt talks about magic tricks, why you can’t trust an author – and seeing herself as ‘ridiculous’
August 2017
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women by Siri Hustvedt review – essays on perception
The Q&A
Siri Hustvedt: ‘Perhaps I could time travel as a man or a ghost’
April 2017
Meet the author
Francesca Segal: ‘I think there are multiple awkward ages’
The award-winning novelist on life’s transitional stages, and her dad – the man who wrote Love Story
December 2016
A life in ...
Siri Hustvedt: ‘Trump was elected because misogyny is alive and well’
Book of the day
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt – review
November 2016
Best books of 2016
Best books of 2016 – part two
Paula Hawkins reflects on guilt, Jackie Kay seeks hope post-Brexit, and David Nicholls is lured into the lonely city … writers pick their best books of 2016
December 2015
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 – plus our favourite literary links
November 2014
Books blog
Creative writing: when characters are difficult to get on with
Even authors as seasoned as Stephen King often struggle to fully imagine their inventions and once they have, the relationship can remain very uneasy
July 2014
The week in books
Man Booker prize 2014: why the longlist has bewildered the bookies
Books blog
Man Booker prize 2014: a judge speaks up for the longlist
