Features & interviews

The endless allure of Alan Rickman’s disdain

Seven years after his death, Alan Rickman’s diaries are being published. Jessie Thompson discovers they reveal the Harry Potter and ‘Die Hard’ star as cutting, uncompromising and gravely serious about his work – but what if he’d had a bit more fun?

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Ruth Jones: ‘James Corden and I won’t write a new Gavin and Stacey’

Kamila Shamsie: The Women’s Prize for Fiction winner on her new book

How Kate Atkinson became our most celebrated yet enigmatic novelist

Hilary Mantel’s grasp on circumstance was equal to Shakespeare

Martin Chilton Books of the Month: From George Saunders to Alan Rickman’s diaries

Andrew Sean Greer: ‘I’m just a guy who happened to win the Pulitzer’

The enduring appeal of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, 30 years on

Melanie C: ‘Was Thatcher the first Spice Girl? Absolutely not’

AM Homes isn’t anti-American. She just writes what she sees

Books of the month: From Ian McEwan to Terry Pratchett

Sloane Crosley has written 2022’s most surreal romcom

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

Five five super short, super satisfying books to bring on holiday

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

25 books that should have never been made into films

News

Jada Pinkett Smith to release ‘no holds barred’ memoir

Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The best children’s books for exploring mental health

First edition Emma becomes most expensive Jane Austen novel ever sold

5 new books to read this week

Game of Thrones collaborator denies racism after fans boycott book