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Sarah Jessica Parker famously played Carrie Bradshaw, a columnist, in Sex and the City, (Photo: Instagram/@carriebradshawsc)

From Carrie Bradshaw to Booker judge: Should Sarah Jessica Parker, or any celebrity be deciding the biggest prize in books?

November 16, 2025 10:06 am

Sarah Jessica Parker’s leap from Carrie Bradshaw to Booker judge raises the question whether celebrities should decide the world’s top literary prize

'Writing it felt risky ...': David Szalay wins the 2025 Booker Prize for 'Flesh'

November 15, 2025 11:29 pm

Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the Booker Prize 2025 for his sixth novel Flesh, becoming the first writer of Hungarian heritage to claim the prestigious literary award.

2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay has been named the winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh.

Kiran Desai misses out, Flesh by David Szalay takes the Booker

November 15, 2025 7:27 pm

Announcement of the International Booker Prize 2025 — winners name, reactions, and key moments.

A Booker Prize 2025 contender, Flesh asks what if being a man means having no control at all?

2025 Booker Prize winner David Szalay’s Flesh asks what it really means to be a man

November 11, 2025 12:41 pm

David Szalay's Flesh says something about masculinity and violence, that is rarely admitted even in fiction these days

Benjamin Markovits: In The Rest of Our Lives, Markovits maps the emotional geography of a man running out of road.

The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits review — a midlife journey between fiction and fatigue

November 13, 2025 7:51 pm

On the Booker shortlist: The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits is a novel of emotional accuracy if occasionally too quiet for its own good.

Booker nominated author Kiran Desai has written Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) and The Inheritance of Loss.

2 Kiran Desai novels to read while we wait for Booker-nominated 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny'

August 13, 2025 11:17 am

2025 Booker Prize longlist: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai's third novel, which is coming out after 19 years of her Booker-winning second novel, is set to release on September 25.

Anita Desai and her daughter Kiran Desai both of whom have made it to the booker prize longlist multiple times

As Kiran Desai eyes a second Booker, we remember 3 times her mother Anita Desai made it to the shortlist

August 08, 2025 11:33 am

As Kiran Desai returns to the Booker Prize longlist nearly two decades after her win, we look back at the three novels that earned her mother, Anita Desai, a place in the prize’s literary pantheon.

The 2025 Booker Prize longlist has been announced

Inside the 2025 Booker Prize longlist: A reader’s guide

September 23, 2025 10:45 pm

Spanning nine nationalities and four continents, the 13 novels that make up the 2025 "Booker Dozen" trace fault lines both personal and political across war zones, classrooms, and intergenerational silences.

Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga acquitted in a case against her for inciting violence

May 11, 2023 4:51 pm

The 64-year-old author's alleged offence was carrying a placard asking for institutional reforms

The Booker Prize trophy has just been christened after writer Iris Murdoch. Here's what you need to know about her

April 09, 2023 8:17 pm

The statuette was named Iris after Bernandine Evaristo, the first Black woman to win the prize in 2019, refused the honour of having it named Bernie after her and Bernice Rubens, the first woman to win the prize in 1970