Never mind heaving bosoms and whimpering grunts, some writers – from Sally Rooney to DH Lawrence – depict genuine, sometimes graphic, intimacy in all its forms
May 2023
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret review – warm, emotionally agile Judy Blume adaptation
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret review – Judy Blume’s classic pre-teen tale retold
‘We used to agree on who we trust. Now we don’t’: James L Brooks on truth, The Simpsons and adapting Judy Blume
Being a teenage girl is only getting harder. Thank God they still have Judy Blume
Leila Latif
April 2023
Digested week
Digested week: how can the US embrace James Corden, but not quiche?
Emma Brockes
This week there was the last ever Carpool Karaoke, more royal rumblings, and a pastry pursuit
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret review – Judy Blume adaptation is a winner
Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel McAdams are remarkable in a thoughtful and funny expansion of the seminal 1970s teen novel
Judy Blume Forever review – inspiring portrait of a fearless author
Judy Blume forever: the writer who dares to tell girls the plain truth
Judy Blume: book banning now much worse in US than in 1980s
March 2023
The books of my life
Benjamin Myers: ‘My comfort read? Viz’
The writer and journalist on Jon Savage’s punk bible, coming back to DH Lawrence and finding comfort in Wodehouse’s Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
July 2021
From Playboy to periods: I reread Judy Blume with my tween. She found it perplexing
Pip Harry
Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret? will always hold its place in the canon – but it doesn’t reflect the world of Pip Harry’s 11-year-old daughter
May 2021
Hilary Mantel, Mad Max and Donald Trump: what we learned from Sydney writers’ festival
Judy Blume, Paul Kelly, George Miller and Tara June Winch were among the guests at Carriageworks, in a welcome return for the beloved event
October 2018
Judy Blume's Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret to be adapted for film
After half a century of batting off Hollywood offers, beloved US children’s author agrees to movie version of her best-known novel
February 2018
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan review - nostalgic magic
This celebration of children’s literature excels in capturing the sense of wonder we find in our earliest books
July 2016
Greenslade
Press freedom threats in the US prompt writers to sign petition
Roy Greenslade
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume – review
May 2016
'People are hungry for real bookstores': Judy Blume on why US indie booksellers are thriving
At 78, the multimillion-selling author has begun a new career, opening her own bookshop – and joining a business sector that’s flourishing again in the US
January 2016
Children's books
Top 10 funny first-person narrators
Children's books
No taboo should be off limits when writing for teenagers
