Booker Prize

Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing

It’s time for our annual guide to the best new fiction of the year

From an old-fashioned tale to a new-fashioned one, with a dash of dystopia

From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month

It’s time to appreciate Kingsley Amis — flaws and all

In 2021, is the state of the Booker still “not serious stuff”?

As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes

The implications of identity politics on literary trends

Ageing controversialist

We need a system where books that publishers really love, where it’s not mere puff, get a special sticker on the front, says John Self