Fifty years ago, when a lump of extra-terrestrial iron fireballed towards Belfast, a stampede of street kids stopped in their tracks
In My Mother Laughs, Akerman’s pain while watching her mother’s health worsen becomes entwined with the shock of heartbreak
Her lyrical, haunting novel Celestial Bodies exposes the global forces that preclude literary value from flowing in both directions
On the emergence of transgender literature
‘At the first site, the freedom of the United States of America is honoured; at the second, the history of its immigrants is conserved’
Storms arise, the boat pitches and rolls, passengers are literally and figuratively tossed together
A Nobel Prize-winning writer, a misogynist, a small-town boy with a haughty, big-city gaze: Naipaul’s life was marked by a sense of doubleness
The continued dominance of UK-US writers makes a mockery of the Man Booker’s ‘global outlook’
The frieze columnist's first novel is an homage to, and embodiment of, the late, great Kathy Acker
Publishing elegant, peculiar studies in fine attention and finer craft, how the small London press is producing some of the best writing around
The poet on the ‘strange portability’ of life on the road
The novelist explored Jewish identity in the US through a lens of frustrated heterosexuality
The US writer, who died last week, brought a quality of inestimable importance to the modern novel: a mind that was wholly in tune with the times
Homages to the writers and friends at Tate St Ives and Turner Contemporary pay tribute to their affection for the sea as a cipher for the self
Before ‘fake news’ and the turn against Facebook, painter David Salle remembers a book that predicted how the media sphere would shatter
As the Man Booker Prize debates whether to nix US writers, the ‘homogenized future’ some novelists fear for British literature is already here
Curators Tom Eccles and Amy Zion take a literary theme for 2018
The artist reveals the books that have influenced him
The long-overdue publication of Susan Sontag's collected short fiction
From a wild child to a talking mongoose: what to read this weekend
