For literature, 1984 was a very good year. Not in the 1922 league (after The Waste Land and Ulysses, nothing was the same), but still significant. The Booker Prize jury played safe with the small and ...

Intricate rented world begins to rouse. I’m particularly hung up on the word “rented.” We live in a rented world—and the landlord, alas, can evict us without any notice whatsoever. In Nothing to Be ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Carmel Bird is the Australian author of 30 books, including novels, collections of short stories and essays, and manuals on the art of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

There's an eerie moment in this new recording of Julian Barnes' classic novel about life and literature. 'My wife died,' says the narrator Geoffrey Braithwaite, a former doctor and now biographer of ...

All the talk of Cheney's chapeau got me thinking. There's the obvious notion that he's channeling Snidely Whiplash, a fitting tribute for a man who always looks like he just got done dining on braised ...