Culture

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

Anne McElvoy on how LBC branch out into podcasting and American podcasters bid for their share of British ears

Alexander Larman writes an open letter to the artistic directors of theatres

You can grow without a garden

On the merits of celebrity authors and literary book prizes

Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence

John Self on debut novels that provide an insight into publishing in Britain

Henry Jeffreys recommends five innovative Lebanese wines which show the potential of the country’s growing wine industry

Kathleen Stock’s new book is exactly the kind of forensic, generous intervention the ongoing trans debate sorely needs

From psychological character studies to witty and fast-paced detective novels, Jeremy Black rounds up the best crime fiction for late Spring