Features & interviews

Interview

Ian McEwan on sensitivity readers, Succession, and his next novel

As he prepares for a special performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Booker Prize-winning novelist talks to Kevin E G Perry about his love of classical music, the trouble with the monarchy, and why he’s more concerned about Putin than edits to Roald Dahl

Interview

‘I’ve been violated my whole life’: Paris Hilton on sexism, #MeToo and surviving fame

‘I want to write’: The lost world of Zelda Fitzgerald

How Nora Ephron became the poster girl for millennial writers

Reviews

Stories outlast tyrants in Salman Rushdie’s vibrant Victory City

Spare by Prince Harry sets fire to the royal family with style

Martin Chilton Books of the month: Self-help, short stories and sea creatures

Books of the month: From Jonathan Coe to Bob Dylan’s essays

Lists

The best books of 2023, from Prince Harry to Zadie Smith

Martin Chilton The 20 best books of the year, from Claire Keegan to Jonathan Coe

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

News

Anthony Horowitz says Dahl publishers ‘shot themselves in the foot’

Agatha Christie books to be rewritten for modern sensitivities

The life of born show-off Noel Coward, 50 years on

Kurdish Romeo and Juliet, the legend of Mem and Zin through the ages

Patrick French, renowned biographer of VS Naipaul, dies aged 56

5 new books to read this week