Juliet Jacques’ memoir Trans is not a comfortable read – nothing this honest could be
Trans challenges us all, no matter what our gender.
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All hail the sex robots! Margaret Atwood’s new book explores how tech meets human fear
While some of her other dystopian fiction becomes preachy, even hectoring, here a character hears about a sex robot that is…
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Simon Jenkins on military intervention reminds me of the times we didn’t act
Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention shows how military action can lead to suffering – but what about inaction?
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English magic: how folklore haunts the British landscape
The Land of the Green Man by Carolyne Larrington shows how supernatural stories can help us understand reality.
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Edmund de Waal’s The White Road follows the journey of creativity
White is a dangerous colour – and de Waal’s journey shows the human cost of porcelain.
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Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing With Feathers: a new take on the Ted Hughes myth
Hughes’ Crow sprang up after the death of Sylvia Plath – now a debut novel brings the wild bird back.
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Salman Rushdie’s latest is a “rummage around scepticism and superstition”
Salman Rushdie’s Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights and A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk.
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Life after death: Bill Clegg’s Did You Ever Have a Family
Bill Clegg’s first novel – longlisted for the Man Booker Prize – is a reminder that anything could happen to…
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