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Women’s Prize, Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

Are you greater than the sum of all your text messages? This year’s Women’s Prize winner can tell you

June 30, 2026 3:54 pm

If you enjoy wise, reflective novels about everyday life, or if you’ve hit a reading block, The Correspondent is the book for you. Here’s why

India has more English academies than Pakistan, but rebels like Mohammed Hanif are in short supply

May 19, 2026 1:58 pm

Mohammed Hanif’s Rebel English Academy is irreverent, unafraid and very funny. It is the kind of English book that hasn’t come out of India in a while now.

This is Where the serpent lives Daniyal Mueenuddin

If Charles Dickens wrote Downton Abbey: This new Pakistani novel has charm, beauty, and unrelenting cruelty

April 05, 2026 10:03 pm

Daniyal Mueenuddin's new novel, This is Where The Serpent Lives, combines Dickensian characters with Pakistani destinies, to great effect.

Goth Barbie, dull dreamboat: Why Wuthering Heights' lovers are angry with Emerald Fennell's ragebait

May 27, 2026 7:14 pm

Wuthering Heights: Emerald Fennell has scrubbed out everything that was uncomfortable or transgressive or brave or true in the book, and replaced it with pretty clothes and hot sex, because outrage sells, amirite?

David Szalay's Flesh is crisp, moving, experimental — and not a manosphere manifesto

November 23, 2025 2:47 pm

In the rush to tie every Booker winner to a cultural zeitgeist, David Szalay's Flesh has been anointed the latest ‘masculinity in crisis’ novel. It is much more than that, says this review.

Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter: A quiet, captivating book for the phone-frazzled mind

November 12, 2025 3:20 pm

Andrew Miller The Land in Winter, Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: This column's pick is for those who would like to slow down and concentrate, but are overwhelmed by the onslaught of 'content' all around. Andrew Miller makes you pay attention to fully savour his The Land in Winter.

Re-reading The Kite Runner: Empathy and redemption come all too easy as a winning formula

November 13, 2025 8:15 pm

On a closer reading, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner reveals how its moral simplicity and ready redemption make it both heart-warming and problematic.

Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: If Sally Rooney's characters had desi parents

November 20, 2025 12:53 pm

In true Sally Rooney fashion, Kiran Desai's beautiful, intelligent, tortured Sonia and Sunny eventually discover that love will save you. But their parents know what to do when being saved is not enough.

Wuthering Heights has a green-flag hero — we focus on the wrong couple

October 08, 2025 12:17 pm

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights Summary: Yet another Wuthering Heights adaptation, yet more injustice to Hareton Earnshaw. Here's why we keep fetishising two unhinged teenagers, Heathcliff and Cathy, while ignoring the redemptive love story Emily Bronte wrote.

Mom by day, monster by night: Why Nightbitch hits new parents hard

September 27, 2025 12:49 pm

New motherhood is a horror so mystical, so sacred, that pop culture flinches from it. It is impossible to describe those first few years of creating and raising a human in anything as mundane as words. Which is why Rachel Yoder resorts to magic.