Book review

The book is a love letter to unfettered capitalism

The world’s most celebrated young author returns with a layered novel on sibling rivalry

At 136 pages, it is also the second-shortest novel to win since the prize’s founding in 1969

In lyrical language, Anne Michaels reflects on how we carry the dead with us, and how their memories leave a permanent imprint

Set in a spaceship, Samantha Harvey’s novel invites readers to savour Earth’s majesty from orbit – even if the journey sometimes feels weightless

Percival Everett shifts the focus from Huckleberry Finn to the slave Jim, to tell a powerful story of identity and survival

Charlotte Wood’s slow epistolary novel invites readers to sit with ambiguity, but in doing so, dims its own luminosity

The book suggests we can up our game by doing fewer things at a more natural pace

IN 1970, Milton Friedman penned an influential editorial in The New York Times stating that business had one social responsibility: to increase profits. The Friedman doctrine focuses on managers in th...