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Author Sergei Lebedev: ‘Trump is a huge gift to Putin’s Russia’
The exiled novelist on Russia’s ‘state terrorism’, whether he’ll ever return home – and the dark history behind his latest book
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Charles Dickens wasn’t a good Christian – but he’s turned Jesus into box office gold
The King of Kings, an animated film based on Dickens’s retelling of the life of Christ, is a runaway hit. Would the author have approved?
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Nobel novelist: ‘Sunak and Patel, whose parents migrated, are now the most virulent migrant-haters’
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first novel since winning the biggest prize in literature revisits an injustice from his Tanzanian childhood
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‘Once shown, they’ll have to be kept in the dark for years’: the secret drawings of Victor Hugo
When the French novelist died in 1885, he left behind The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables – and a fragile cache of jaw-dropping art
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Is the man behind this terrifying mask Japan’s answer to Richard Osman?
He’s the biggest crime writer in Japan – now Uketsu’s work is set to become a UK sensation. But who is the novelist in disguise?
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Yet another novel where our hero wakes up dead
It’s an interesting conceit for Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou in his new book, Dealing with the Dead – but it’s not his strongest work
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The 5 David Lodge books you need to read
From warring academics to lapsed Catholics, nobody skewered society with such wit as the Booker-nominated author, who has died aged 89
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‘It’s insane to bring the two together’: the couple who staged Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto
During lockdown, two out-of-work actors decided to put on Shakespeare’s masterpiece in the ultra-violent video game. What could go wrong?
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Why Cormac McCarthy’s illicit affair changes everything we knew about his fiction
The news that McCarthy groomed a teenage girl has shocked the literary world – and revealed the enormous impact she had on his work
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Imagine The Go-Between, but set in small-town America
James Grady has left behind spy thrillers with The Smoke in Our Eyes, a tender, coming-of-age novel set in 1950s rural Montana
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The best crime thrillers of 2024, from Richard Osman to John le Carré
This year saw a bumper crop of flawed and villainous heroes, some more traditional cops and the thrilling advent of a new spy-writing talent
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David Baldacci: ‘I’ve had death threats – but I am proud to have challenged what people think’
With a new thriller out, one of the world’s best-selling authors talks Hollywood, censorship and literary feuds
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Why The Chronicles of Narnia is a director’s biggest nightmare
Greta Gerwig is adapting two of CS Lewis’s books. But with their overtly Christian message, they are a minefield
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The Elvis Presley of philosophy: ‘It’s stupid and humiliating to be old’
With a new book out, Slavoj Žižek talks Corbyn, capitalism and the ‘stupid liberal notions’ that he believes play into Donald Trump’s hands
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Why we always get Jules Verne wrong
The writer was far more than the inventor of cosy sci-fi – but few adaptations capture the radicalism of this ‘undercover revolutionary’
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Is this new ‘le Carré’ novel even better than the master himself?
In Karla’s Choice, which fills in George Smiley’s missing years, Nick Harkaway has done an extraordinarily good job with his father’s legacy
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