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The third novel in the author's Morning Star series considers how the extreme can engulf the everyday. THE THIRD REALM, by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Translated by Martin Aitken. The latest [...]

In 2015, while discussing his 14th novel, The Children Act, on the Vintage Books podcast, Ian McEwan dodged a question about the 'differences' between his early and later books. The [...]

Top Gun, the ludicrous film about naval aviators released in 1986 and now begetter of a sequel, boasts dozens of memorable, meme-friendly elements. The movie contains topless beach volleyball, topless [...]

'Must be action, adventure, ingenuity, unbeatable self-defence,' Jim Crant wrote in 1994, on his way to becoming Lee Child. He was 39, married with one daughter, and working as a [...]

Non-fiction By Tom Gatti We begin the year as we began the last one: fighting a virus that has transformed our way of life. In Preventable (Viking, May), Devi Sridhar [...]

''The Singularities'' is an ambitiously referential work that confronts some of humanity's greatest challenges. THE SINGULARITIES, by John Banville The Irish novelist John Banville writes prose of such luscious elegance [...]

THE ABSOLUTEBy Daniel GuebelTranslated by Jessica Sequeira Daniel Guebel's novel -- his 15th, though the first to appear in English -- is a quixotic enterprise concerned with a quixotic enterprise [...]

Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars Daisy Dunn Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 304pp, 20 [pounds sterling] Daisy Dunn describes her new book, a follow-up to inventive biographies of Catullus [...]

At the time of his death on 26 November, aged 91, the American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim occupied a unique position in the history of musical theatre oddball and [...]

As was the case with Barnes and Brookner, the narrator of his new novel, Neil (a failed actor, twice divorced) used to meet the older, unmarried, west London-dwelling Elizabeth Finch for lunches that lasted for 75 minutes. BOOKS & CULTURE Books Julian Barnes once claimed that novelists tend to start by using material at a distance from their own lives before turning back to more autobiographical sources. Finch would say to Neil, as Brookner did to Barnes, "what have you got for me?". [Extracted from the article]