The Booker Prize 2026 Shortlist: Thirteen Novels Down to Six
Mary Beard's panel longlisted thirteen novels in July. The cut to six comes on 22 September. On what the longlist reveals and which books are structurally at risk.
Literature
Books, authors, literary events, criticism and translation.
Translating Clarice Lispector, Sentence by Sentence
On translating a writer whose style IS her meaning — what Clarice Lispector demands of her translators, and why new English versions keep arriving.
Grazia Deledda and the Nobel the World Forgot
The only Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature wrote almost entirely about Sardinia, and is barely read outside Italy today. On Grazia Deledda's disappearing legacy.
W.G. Sebald: The Walk Through Memory
A reassessment of the German writer's four great books - why Sebald's blending of fact, fiction, photograph and elegy feels more necessary now than when he wrote it.