Guardian review
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William Dalrymple, whose teenage passion for photography was superseded by writing, puts the theory to the test
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It’s just one of the regional terms for woodlouse; others being ‘sow-dug’, ‘slater’ and ‘johnny-grump’. The nature writer reveals the language of the landscape that has been shared with him
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The novelist on the two desks in his office, finding the perfect pen and looking forward to cocktail hour
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Best known for an image on a U2 album cover, the painter and photographer was was also an Aids activist whose message of defiance from the late 80s reverberates in American politics today
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The so called ‘Bafta’s of the book trade’ has increased the number of awards it gives, making for a long night of applauding and guzzling – and prizes for everyone
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Books blog Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji’s crime isn't what he wrote – it is that he is alive
Ahdaf SoueifOver 600 Egyptian writers have signed a statement in support of the Egyptian author, who is serving a two-year sentence for ‘injuring public modesty’ with his graphic novel, The Use of Life -
This debut about siblings squabbling over an inheritance is almost tyrannically entertaining
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Every anxiety about race in the US is laid bare in a surreal fable about a black neighbourhood being wiped off the map
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Nicholas Martin’s wonderful screenplay for the new film is accompanied by Jasper Rees’s biography, which details the scandal in Jenkins’s life and presents her as a symbol of female empowerment
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Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: this translation is the best way yet for English speakers to enter the poet’s dream-like world
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Sinister scientists and cryogenic pods: one of our leading chroniclers of contemporary reality turns his attention to life after death
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It was the year of the Sex Pistols, Stevie Wonder and perfect Swedish pop, but 1976 was also the annus mirabilis of minimalism
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What happened to Alan Bennett in Nick Hornby’s Love, Nina?