The latest from the widely acclaimed author — winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian — is a spare, haunting novel about friendship, memory and ...

The L.A. Times Festival of Books lineup is here. Kicking off its 31st year, speakers include Pat Benatar, Tina Knowles, Reza ...

Eight years after his first public performance in a Deep Ellum parking lot, Dallas native Marc Rebillet will return home to headline the JAMBALOO Music Prize Celebration on June 6 at the historic ...

Pan Macmillan CEO Joanna Prior, speaking at the London Book Fair, warned industry figures of the existential threat posed by the reading crisis.

Magic does not always arrive with spectacle. In magical realism, it slips quietly into everyday life. Ghosts talk, food carries emotions, and children hear voices across continents. This selection of ...

The regional and country winners of The British Book Awards 2026 Small Press of the Year have been revealed, with the winners "continuing to punch above their weight, grow sales and win prizes".

But having watched Rennie being interviewed by Jeff Wilson on The Breakdown there were reminders there of his point of difference with his predecessor, Scott ‘Razor’ Robinson, that might be a bit ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The announcement of this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest profile award, was delayed by a week or ...

Rarely has such a short title worked harder than Howl, which Howard Jacobson takes from Allen Ginsberg’s incantatory 1955 ...

Freelance journalist and broadcaster, writing about music and the arts. Bring in the flood defences, because it's not just the extravagantly-named storms that the world has to contend with these days.

Finding the right gift can be tricky. Clothes are hard. Experiences are harder. And shipping times are long. But when all else fails, you can always count on a trusty book to do the trick. Obviously ...