Who killed Pasolini?
Olivia Laing’s new tale of gay love imagines the murder of the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Ben Pester: “Feeling weird is essential”
The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the pleasure of generational differences and the value of messy literature
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What we demand of Epstein’s victims
Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s bleak memoir shows how the struggle for justice warps those who’ve been hurt most
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Sarah Hall: “I wanted readers to experience dystopia”
The Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on making climate catastrophe feel real in fiction
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Britain’s Fawlty state of mind
Fifty years after it was first aired, Fawlty Towers now looks ahead of its time
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Klaus Kinski, wrath of god
Benjamin Myers’ new novel follows the actor trailing both chaos and charisma in one infamous theatre production about Christ
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Jon Fosse’s war on convention
In his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize, the Norwegian author heads a radical counter-movement in publishing that spurns…
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Yrsa Daley-Ward: “How could anyone keep themselves all the way out of a novel?”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on colour as a language, trusting strangeness and how memories revise and rewrite themselves
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