Twilight is immortal
Twenty years after the book, Stephenie Meyer still knows what we ache for
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The Goldsmiths Prize 2025 celebrates new perspectives
Four first-time novelists are among the six writers shortlisted for the £10,000 award for fiction that “breaks the mould”.
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Jane Goodall’s lucid optimism
The renowned naturalist believes that we can only save the planet with hope.
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Gore Vidal: American prophet
The writer understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall
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The liberating power of vodou
Slave risings across the Caribbean, argues Sudhir Hazareesingh’s new book, drew less on Enlightenment ideas than African spirit lore
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How Charlie Brown captured the American psyche
Charles Schulz’s beloved Peanuts series was more than just a comic strip – it was America’s conscience
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Annie Ernaux’s clinical self-examination
In The Other Girl, the writer is as objective about her life as she is the act of writing
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The terrible contradictions of Tolstoy
Maxim Gorky’s reminiscences about his literary hero are just as avant-garde today as they were in the 1920s
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