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“Wolf Hall”, by Hilary Mantel, didn’t just win the Man Booker prize last year: it became the fastest-selling Booker winner ever. But behind her triumph, as she reveals in this memoir, lay a complicated relationship with awards ...  read more »

In the second instalment of our series on what makes distinctive writers distinctive, Nicholas Shakespeare tackles Graham Greene ...  read more »

In his latest Repasts column, which considers meals found in books, Jon Fasman writes of blancmange, a dessert Chaucer associated with his cook's weeping ulcer ...  read more »

Rapturous applause recently greeted a nine-hour marathon of Dostoyevsky on stage. James C. Taylor wonders: why not just read the book?
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Francine Houben built a spectacular library for Delft. Now she has a bigger challenge: Birmingham. Robert Butler meets her ...  read more »

One of America's great experimental writers died on June 4th in New York City, aged 82. Catherine Corman considers his legacy ...  read more »

Maggie Fergusson, secretary of the Royal Society of Literature, chooses the books of the season, from a life of Pearl Buck to a love from William Trevor ...  read more »

"I always said I wasn’t going to write about Norman because no one would believe it," Norris Church Mailer has said. "But when you go to bed after you’ve lost your husband, you start thinking about the life together, and it just poured out..."  read more »

Mark Twain’s life, as well as his stories, revolved around the Mississippi. Laura Barton follows the river across ten states to see it through his eyes ...  read more »