Available in English for the first time, these selected letters - reminiscent of Van Gogh's Letters or Delacroix's Journals - represent Nicolas de Staël's correspondence with his adoptive parents, his...

Interviewed by Harriet Armstrong, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo on lying, parlour tricks, 'feigned humanity' and her debut novel Attention-Seeking Behaviour.

Review by Annabel Les Fugitives is a small indie press that initially specialised in French translations, of both literary fiction and nonfiction (see here). Lately, they've widened their scope to

On the eve of International Dylan Thomas Day, meet the six shortlisted authors for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, the world’s largest l

Review of Zombie Proust by Jérôme Prieur. It is the opposite of a conventional biography or hagiography.

The JRB presents an excerpt from Olufemi Terry's debut novel, Wilderness of Mirrors. Wilderness of MirrorsOlufemi TerryLes Fugitives (UK), March 2026Restless Books (USA), 2025 One o’clock in the morni...

The Guardian’s fiction editor picks the best of the year, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count to Thomas Pynchon’s return, David Szalay’s Booker winner and a remarkable collection of short stor...

Michèle Roberts discusses the follow-up to Bookshop bestseller French Cooking for One with Alice Blackhurst

Proust saw glittering Parisian dinners and costume balls as “great massacres.” His society models posed for him and were in turn “devoured” by him.

Assembling fragments of past and present Van Horn describes a life laid out in detail, quietly registering the fuzziness of the line between eccentricity and madness. An undutiful daughter records he...