This Christmas, read a story aloud - you'll be surprised by the joy it brings
With many of us set to spend Christmas on Zoom or the phone, author Sarah Hall shares why dark and daring tales are perfect to read to others - and 10 great stories to try
March 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 books about boarding school
From Evelyn Waugh to Molesworth, novels set in these places of privilege are microcosmic studies of oppression and rebellion
September 2017
First books, second thoughts: embarrassing debuts - quiz
From Martin Amis on video games, to Neil Gaiman on pop music, a good number of celebrated writers wish to forget their initial appearances on the literary scene. But have you?
May 2017
Top 10s
Top 10 campus novels
Natural theatres for intellectual ideas and human folly, universities have provided perfect stages for novelists from Kingsley Amis to Michael Chabon
September 2016
The Obama years: novelists assess his legacy
Expectations were sky high when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. As his term draws to a close, has he disappointed or delivered? Novelists in America appraise him
April 2016
Top 10s
KJ Orr's top 10 stories of crossing boundaries
The British countryside has never had it so bad
Tobias Jones
August 2011
Tobias Wolff: 'I still feel as though I'm faking it'
He's one of America's most celebrated authors, yet Tobias Wolff still worries he'll disappoint. He talks to Xan Brooks about the challenges of the memoir game and measuring up to the 'great father', Hemingway
