Why László Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Hungarian author’s work has a huge and haunting vision
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Andrew O’Hagan’s ode to friendship
In his memoir/manifesto, the author suggests the close relationships we make with peers shape our lives
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The World Cup in the age of extremes
Next year’s edition, to be held in Donald Trump’s America, will only be the latest in a long history of…
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When did opera become elitist?
Alexandra Wilson’s history of the art form in Britain shows how it used to appeal to everyone, from miners to…
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The price of revolution
Jason Burke chronicles how radical activists in the 1970s found violent new ways to pursue their causes
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An Afghan hotel that has seen it all
Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul is a vivid and personal display of Afghanistan’s turbulent political history
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Thomas Pynchon’s lasting triumph
His latest novel borrows too freely from his previous work. But what work it has been
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Jilly Cooper was our national flirt
Novels like Riders made room for pleasure in a literary culture often wary of it
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