Books and Literature

In ‘Perfect Happiness,’ You-jeong Jeong — South Korea’s ‘Queen of Crime’ — turns domestic life into a claustrophobic masterpieceSubscriber Only

The Samurai Detectives: Read it for the history, not just the whodunitSubscriber Only

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

Five magical books for neurodivergent childrenSubscriber Only

The Blue Potter: The clay, the colour, the continuumSubscriber Only

Separating the art from the artist: The blind spot of admirationSubscriber Only

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is the perfect AI parableSubscriber Only

Joe Hill’s ‘King Sorrow’: A humdinger of a horror tale that makes you thinkSubscriber Only

Who is David Szalay, the 2025 Booker Prize winner?Subscriber Only

A Hungarian autumn: After László Krasznahorkai’s Nobel win, David Szalay bags the BookerSubscriber Only

‘Writing it felt risky …’: David Szalay wins the 2025 Booker Prize for ‘Flesh’Subscriber Only

Kiran Desai misses out, Flesh by David Szalay takes the BookerSubscriber Only

Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025Subscriber Only

A look at the 6 novels shortlisted for the 2025 Booker PrizeSubscriber Only

Booker Prize 2025: Andrew Miller’s Land in Winter — a tender portrait of survival, love and loneliness in the Big FreezeSubscriber Only

Flashlight by Susan Choi — a haunting tale of memory, loss, and the shadows of historySubscriber Only

Katie Kitamura’s Audition turns life into a stageSubscriber Only

Breakneck by Dan Wang: What the US can learn from China to maintain its supremacySubscriber Only

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

Andrew Miller’s The Land in Winter: A quiet, captivating book for the phone-frazzled mindSubscriber Only

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

Where to start with Margaret Atwood: A guide to her best booksSubscriber Only

The glove’s off—and on: Inside Margaret Atwood’s awaited memoir Book of LivesSubscriber Only

She’s back with another, but Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss has not left usSubscriber Only