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The Guardian view on Middlemarch: the greatest novel in the English language

Editorial: George Eliot’s masterpiece of provincial life still has much to teach us about sympathy and tolerance

The Guardian - UK

Who’s in, who’s out, and how many have you read? The story behind our 100 best novels list

Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. Ulysses or Catch-22 … Find out which title came top, as chosen by authors, critics and academics worldwide

The Guardian - UK

The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps

From Naomi Ishiguro to Jess Atwood Gibson, more children of high profile writers are becoming authors themselves. Parents and their literary offspring discuss the pressures of measuring up

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The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan review – an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard

The biographer’s terminal illness and death is woven into this original and moving account of Ballard and his work

The Guardian - UK

Yann Martel: ‘I hate the rich people of this world – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’

The Canadian author on good writing advice from Martin Amis, his love for digging and getting rid of billionaires

The Guardian - AU

The UK has a chance to pioneer pornography regulation – it must take it

The crime bill proposes a stronger model of consent – and with violent imagery and child sexual abuse soaring, who, really, can argue against it? says author Susanna Rustin

The Guardian - UK

The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self review – raucously inventive state-of-the-nation satire

Thirty-five years on from his debut collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self takes aim at London’s chattering classes in an excoriating vision of moral decline

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Styles guide: is Harry’s album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. grammatically correct?

The follow-up to 2022’s Harry’s House boasts an esoteric title – but experts say ambiguity might be the goal

The Guardian - US

Thursday briefing: Thirty years of the Women’s prize for fiction – have male novelists been edged out?

In today’s newsletter: As the literary award marks its 30th anniversary, the debate about whether it is relevant when women dominate bestsellers list has resurfaced

The Guardian - UK

Memoirs, myths and Midnight’s Children: Salman Rushdie’s 10 best books – ranked!

As the author publishes a new story collection, we rate the work that made his name – from his dazzling Booker winner to an account of the 2022 attack that nearly killed him

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction

Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men

The Guardian - UK

From White Teeth to Swing Time: Zadie Smith’s best books - ranked!

Twenty-five years on from her dazzling debut, and as a new collection of essays comes out, we assess the British author’s best books

The Guardian - UK

Literary mystery meets dystopian future in Ian McEwan's 'What We Can Know'

Ian McEwan has released his 19th novel which is titled “What We Can Know.”

The Independent UK

Best books about London: Tales that capture the essence of the world's best city

From the satirical to the sublime, these books are simply, quintessentially, London

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Billy Williams obituary

Cinematographer who won an Oscar for Gandhi but did his most adventurous work on Ken Russell’s Women in Love

The Walrus

“Made a Difference to My Whole Existence”: Why Childhood Reading Matters

Books are the platform on which everything else is built

The Guardian - UK

When did film violence become so real, wondered Martin Amis in 1994

The novelist, who liked onscreen horror but hated the real kind, compared actual murders and Child’s Play 3

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Anthony Cummins’s best fiction of 2024

From Sally Rooney’s funny and observant latest to Joseph O’Neill’s compelling Godwin and Sarah Manguso’s gripping portrayal of a broken marriage, these are the year’s most enjoyable novels

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The Guardian view on female artists: a force to be reckoned with

Editorial: Tracey Emin is right, women keep on creating into old age. Their work is finally getting the attention it deserves

The Conversation

Female Nazi concentration camp guards: the true horror lies in their similarities to ourselves

Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.

The Independent UK

Martin Amis’s widow to receive knighthood on husband’s behalf

Acclaimed author first person to be on honours list after death

Evening Standard

Zadie Smith: Martin Amis riled me with questions like 'Women not funny. Discuss?'

Smith was among the famous faces who paid tribute to Amis at his memorial service

The Independent UK

What I learnt from my teacher Martin Amis, reveals millennial novelist Coco Mellors

The ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ author also told Hay Festival audiences that being a mother is not ‘an enemy to being an artist’

The Guardian - UK

Martin Amis memorial to be held in London

Friends, family and colleagues will celebrate the author with tributes and readings at St Martin-in-the-Fields church with limited tickets available for members of the public

The Guardian - UK

Knife by Salman Rushdie review – a life interrupted

While the author’s account of the 2022 murder attempt is a courageous defence of free speech, it is also shot through with self-regard, making it a sometimes hard book to admire

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