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Gossip with a kind heart

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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 27: Author J.K. Rowling attends photocall ahead of her reading from 'The Casual Vacancy' at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on September 27, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)

Life as an outsider

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4th July 1977: Members of the Gay Liberation Movement protesting outside the Old Bailey over Mary Whitehouse's court action against the Gay News Magazine. (Photo by Malcolm Clarke/Keystone/Getty Images)

Tricks of the trade

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The American comic novel is going through an odd phase. Just lately it seems like anything funny must sneak in…

Pessimism keeps breaking in

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HAY ON WYE, WALES - MAY 30: Author and critic James Wood poses for a portrait at "The Guardian Hay Festival 2004" held at Hay on Wye on May 30, 2004 in Wales, Great Britain. The festival runs until June 6. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** James Wood

Scratching a living

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OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 09: Author D.J. Taylor poses for a portrait at the Oxford Literary Festival on April 9, 2011 in Oxford, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** D.J. Taylor

The trouble with actors

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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 14: English novelist Eimear McBride attends a photocall at Edinburgh International Book Festival at Charlotte Square Gardens on August 14, 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

Who’s the expert now?

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Avignon, France - September 24, 2016: close up photo of a street artist was playing jazz music with Saxophone on the street in old town, Avignon, France

Six wintry days in Saratoga Springs: Upstate by James Wood reviewed

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Saratoga Springs, UNITED STATES: Ice coats tree branches at the entrance to the Saratoga Spa State Park, 17 January 2007, in Saratoga Springs, New York, a few days after a winter ice storm blew through the area. Harsh winter weather swept across much of the United States, leaving scores of people dead, hundreds of thousands without electricity and threatening to decimate California's citrus crops. At least 50 people have died in storm-related accidents since 12 January, the majority in car accidents on icy roads, major US news media reported. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

The horror of post-Brexit Britain: Perfidious Albion, by Sam Byers, reviewed

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In Byers’s novel, set in the near future, no one in Edmondsbury, a small town in eastern England, is quite who they appear to be
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