Features & interviews

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Women’s Prize winner Ruth Ozeki on ‘real push to silence novelists’

Ruth Ozeki was crowned the 2022 winner of the Women’s Prize for her bewitchingly uncategorisable novel ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness’. She speaks to Claire Allfree about why the prize is still needed, her life as a Buddhist priest, and her fears for the future of the novel in America

Louisa Reid: Posh boys have ‘learned how to make privilege hot’

What did Election’s Tracy Flick do to deserve our scorn?

Inside 1970s cult The Source Family: ‘We were the darlings of LA’

Reviews

Emily Ratajkowski’s My Body is a candid critique on fetishisation

Sally Rooney’s new book is stimulating, but not aimed at the olds

Sarah Ferguson’s Mills & Boon novel is too chaste to set pulses racing

Finally, the Fifty Shades franchise can be put to bed

Lists

Martin Chilton Books of the month: From Fight Night to Factory Girls

Sandra Cisneros: 10 books by Latino authors you should be reading

The 20 best books of 2020

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