Books

Books

When you've written 23 books, it's a little frustrating to be known not even for a book, but for something that happened to a book in 1989—when that was my fifth published book and this is my 23rd. Can we please talk about books? I keep trying to say.

This is someone who has publicly stated, the monarchy in fact depends on actually obliterating the Sussexes from our state of life,' language that speaks for itself. He has made a career out of constructing ever more elaborate theories about people he does not know and has never met.

Research has shown there is a reading for pleasure crisis among children in the UK, where enjoyment of books has fallen to its lowest level in two decades. Not so here at Christ Church primary, a tiny Church of England school tucked behind the maze of HS2 construction works in Camden, north London, where children fizz with excitement about books.

Both are 30, an age which in Yuzuki's telling spells disaster in Japan for unmarried women who are no longer girls. During her long office hours, Eriko becomes addicted to Shoko's pseudonymous, self-deprecating blog The Diary of Hallie B, the World's Worst Wife, and contrives to accidentally-on-purpose meet the blogger at a cafe Shoko mentions in one of her posts.

Tony Volcano Ventura is a streetwise baby. He's 2 when we pick up with him, which immediately puts this in the category of "weird books." "I know people don't usually remember their baby years," young Tony begins his narration, "but I do." Ipso facto, weird book, on account of its being narrated by a toddler, one who rides dogs under moonlight, dodges cops in alleys, and receives enigmatic assignments via the fax machine the moon gave to him.

It takes one cross-country plane, a train, a ferry, then another hour or so by car to reach the writer Lindy West. I had read plenty about how remote her home is, but only by sitting shotgun with West in her girlfriend's maroon Hyundai Elantra did I understand just how far she was from even a gas station.

Author Malorie Blackman said the scheme seeks to highlight the imagination, commitment, craft and care taken to produce stories and books which can be enjoyed by everyone. She added: Any creative endeavour requires time, effort, a willingness to learn from mistakes and failure, and a determination to persevere lifelong, essential skills which cannot be learned and honed by allowing AI to do all of our creative thinking and production for us.

Seeking Sexual Freedom is about rediscovering the rites of passage across African cultures that Nana believes can build new models of sexual freedom. In the book, she asks: Are our Indigenous religions more expansive than the Abrahamic faiths we predominantly practise today? Can we go back to the best of our traditional practices, and use that knowledge as a foundation?

Our love affair had more layers than a lasagna. We were both Italian. Passionate. Intense. Committed to our craft. We both had volcanic tempers. He was a diabolically handsome man who shared my love for film. Their cocaine-dusted romance continued after the film wrapped, and she picked him to direct her in the Broadway musical The Act.

"Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era" quickly became one of my favorite nonfiction books written by a journalist. I appreciated how he showed the grueling, day-to-day work local journalism requires, and how many layers of people fought him in revealing the despicable work of the Ku Klux Klan.

Addie Citchens reads her story 'The City Is a Graveyard,' from the March 16, 2026, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, New Orleans-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, 'Dominion,' was published in 2025 and was short-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and long-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.

This is a shame, because his best work belongs with the greats of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. Summer of Night is a tighter, more satisfying version of Stephen King's It. Carrion Comfort is a brick-sized epic about psychic vampires that reads as breezily as a trade paperback. The Terror, which inspired the well-regarded show, is for its first three-quarters a brilliant and non-supernatural speculative take on a real doomed Arctic expedition.

I sat down at my computer really angry, she tells me. It was the 1990s, the time of the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the Macpherson report's finding of institutional racism within the Metropolitan police. It was my way of channelling that anger.

I've been writing both poetry and short stories since I was a child, but I first began to think of myself as a writer when my 11th-grade English teacher encouraged me to lean in. I started to take my craft seriously in college, majoring in English with a focus on creative writing. By the time I graduated in the mid-1990s, I considered myself a poet.

From the outset, in the novel's prologue, Anna tells us she is determined to account for herself and her life. But we are to expect no ordinary narrative, concerned only with actual events, evidence-based or relying on historical data. No, Anna is interested in the climate of the psyche and the vibrations of the soul. Can it be that the very things we cannot quantify or rationalise are what make life meaningful?

Enrigue's 'penchant for shooting the facts of history through the prism of the absurd' makes him singular-but it also puts him firmly in a long literary tradition. The book 'distills a byzantine swirl of historical events through the lives of a handful of very colorful characters,' intertwining several real and invented incidents with major moments in the Apache Wars, a series of skirmishes involving Native Americans, the U.S., and Mexico across the Southwest borderlands.

Everything, no matter how broken or aged, is precious because of the people who touched it, used it, abandoned it. When the new owners plan to replace the carpet with an exact replica, Maximus laughs: the original, he tells us, is fifty per cent Gilbert DNA—and the scurf of fifteen beloved Labradors and one Miniature Schnauzer with dermatitis.

At the same time, the narrator is taken with her new colleague, Vlad, who is married to fellow professor Cynthia. One day, the narrator and her adult daughter, Sid, follow John's car and see him meeting with Cynthia at the school. Believing that they're having an affair, the narrator resolves to act on her obsession with Vlad.

There will be two books within a very short span. It's just the story that was finally ready to come out of me was big, really, really, really big. One of these books will be so big it will need to be bound as a set of two, so the story will occupy three physical volumes. But it's like one thing altogether, that no amount of glue in any publisher's factory could ever hold this.

According to a National Endowment for the Arts study published a few years back, only 48.5% of adults are typically reading "one book or more for pleasure" in a 12-month span. The numbers get even grimmer when isolating for fiction: just 37.6% of the survey's participants reported reading a novel or short story from July 2021 to July 2022.

I have the rights back to everything now. And getting the rights back to all my things has been a big part of my journey in recent years. I look at any TV or movie adaptation as another facet of the worlds I've created, and it's something I want to be in charge of.

In 1968, a "good girl" is squeaky clean. She studies hard, follows the rules, gets into college and doesn't embarrass her parents. She doesn't lie or drink or do drugs. She doesn't participate in the Summer of Love or experiment with any of its alternative ways of living. She definitely doesn't have premarital sex, get pregnant and upend everyone's meticulously laid plans for her future.