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Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang, book review: Reflections on belonging
Jenny Zhang’s debut collection of short stories orbits around one of the most fundamental human needs – a sense of belonging
Jenny Zhang’s debut collection of short stories orbits around one of the most fundamental human needs – a sense of belonging
The American writer and cultural critic's memoir is one of the most eagerly anticipated books of the year
'Now I’m letting my guard down'
Whitehead has been nominated for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad
Hollywood star's fiction anthology Uncommon Type due to be published in October
This debut novel set in a dystopian future might be a short-term hit for those looking for something to fill 'The Handmaid’s Tale' hole in their life as the TV adaptation draws to a close
'I do think you will have a Westeros book from me in 2018'
The children were later rescued by lifeguards
'Anyone know who Jane Austen's agent is? We'd love to book her for an event'
There are spinoff books, spinoff movies, and a spinoff play all about the prolific writer's magical universe and a ton of fascinating facts about all of them
Fierce, funny and unapologetic, Canadian author Scaachi Koul uses sharp wit and candid humour to confront issues of sexism, racism and stereotypes in her debut book
The bestselling author has teamed up with budget airline easyJet to fill planes taking kids abroad over the summer with “flybraries” – passenger seat pockets containing children’s classics chosen by Wilson
'Do we mean women are better than men? Do we mean all men should be pushed off a cliff? What do we mean? Because that word has meant all of those different things,' says author
The statue will be placed in Austen's birthplace of Steventon, in the south of England
Upcoming Communist Party congress means even tighter state control of social media is likely, experts say
He also sold less that 20,000 copies of the book Dangerous in the US, despite branding the figures as 'fake news'
No, the Order of the Phoenix definitely isn't this smutty
"I don't know whether it will ever be published, but it's actually hanging in a wardrobe currently," the Harry Potter author says
The haunting new collection of short stories from an author twice nominated for the Man Booker Prize
Karen Holmberg writes on the art of John Digby’s collages, which fuses the grotesque and the delicate inside the shape of an animal, which, as she says, preserves the world by putting pieces together
Over the next five days we will be running extracts from the best essays, concluding on Saturday with the winner. Today we feature an extract from an essay by Garret Keizer