Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka: “You don’t know who you’re going to offend”
The Sri Lankan novelist on growing up amid civil war, turning trauma into satire, and winning the 2022 prize.
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How the greatest minds of the Enlightenment united in a small town in Germany
In 1790s Jena a group of thinkers including Friedrich Schiller and Goethe built the intellectual foundations of today’s world.
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The moral corruption of Holocaust fiction
John Boyne’s shameless sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas exemplifies a genre that expunges the genocide of its…
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How George Saunders became literature’s Mr Nice Guy
The author of Lincoln in the Bardo on US politics, his “limited talent”, and the curse of being seen as…
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Kamila Shamsie’s Best of Friends reveals the complexities of female relationships
The author’s portrait of two women growing up in 1980s Karachi exposes the contempt that can often lie beneath love.
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John le Carré’s acts of deception
Even in his love affairs, the spy novelist used tradecraft. Has his double life come to overshadow his work?
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Orhan Pamuk Q&A: “My frustrations and angers have made my life richer”
The novelist on heroic haircuts, his news addiction, and a transformational train journey.
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From Vigdis Hjorth to The Waste Land: recent books reviewed in short
Also featuring essays by Mia Mercado and After the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport.
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