Would it really be better to never see Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s final book?
We all benefit when works by great artists that are marked for destruction are instead preserved
Ghostwriters emerge from the shadows
GHOSTWRITING is a secretive profession. It has long been maintained that a good ghostwriter, like a well-behaved child in the old proverb...
Harsh realities about Indian-Chinese romances
A new book details the relationship struggles of 14 couples from the two cultures
Will books survive Spotify?
SPOTIFY may have made it easier than ever for us to listen to an enormous trove of music, but it extracted so...
UK Booker Prize set to name first-time winner
BRITAIN’S Booker Prize for fiction will anoint a first-time winner when the 2023 recipient of the prestigious prize is announced at a...
Western Lane: Grief, sport and colour in 1980s London
The novel charts an Indian girl’s struggle to cope with her mother’s death and prove herself as a squash player
Study For Obedience: An absurdist account of subjugation and complicity
Sarah Bernstein spins a complex psychological tale of a narrator who is at once dominated, yet suspiciously conscious of her own subjugation
The Bee Sting: Ghosts of the past haunt family in generational Irish drama
Paul Murray effortlessly negotiates the tragic, the comic and everything in between in his second Booker Prize-nominated novel
Bestseller Elon Musk biography to be adapted into film
A TOP-selling biography of billionaire Elon Musk is being adapted into a film with prolific US director Darren Aronofsky already attached, production...
Streisand’s new memoir says she’s ‘still hurt’ by insults over looks
SUPERSTAR Barbra Streisand is capping her storied career with a nearly 1,000-page memoir out on Tuesday, musing on her childhood, Broadway breakout...