Oh, please, give me a break! I don’t have time for all your dramatising
What is it about today’s cultural offerings? Wherever you look, we’ve lost the art of brevity
The Guardian view on lengthening books: read them and weep
Editorial: The judges of the Man Booker prize have complained that some entries needed editing. As titles grow longer, the patience of readers can shorten
Man Booker prize shortlist narrows the field – and also its sights?
The longlist for this year’s award had a daring reach, but the final six contenders return readers to rather more conventional territory
Man Booker 2018: Daisy Johnson becomes youngest ever author shortlisted for prize
The 27-year-old British author’s debut Everything Under is up for the £50,000 award, while Michael Ondaatje and the first nominated graphic novel are knocked out
Stop trying to sex up the Man Booker judges’ meetings. We are geeky nerds
The image of furious rows and storming-outs is not one I recognise but a confection to glamorise publishing, says Guardian writer Alex Clark
‘Over my dead body’: Booker prize archives reveal unknown judging battles
British Library puts archive online, ranging from the coin-toss that won David Storey 1976’s award to Joanna Lumley’s disdain for The Bone People
Sally Rooney novel Normal People unites critics in praise
Lauded as ‘Salinger for the Snapchat generation’ the writer has won wide acclaim
Belinda Bauer, the crime author up for the Booker: ‘If it’s tokenism, I don’t care’
She hadn’t read a crime novel before writing her debut at 45. Now, the author of Snap talks risk-taking, genre snobbery and not needing to know whodunnit
Booker prize longlisting leaves Sabrina’s publishers struggling to meet demand
Nick Drnaso’s graphic novel, the first to make the finalists for the UK’s leading fiction award, has seen sales rocket after the announcement
I’m going back to Proust this August. The truly long read is a summer treat
Short hits might seem preferable to vast narratives, but stories that take time to absorb offer special pleasures, says Alex Clark, writer on culture for the Guardian and Observer
Attica Locke and Esi Edugyan, in conversation: ‘There is so much of our existence that has not been heard’
American author Locke and Canadian novelist Edugyan discuss writing about marginal lives, slavery and Locke’s upcoming Netflix show with Ava DuVernay
Not the Booker longlist: vote now to decide the 2018 shortlist
Our initial poll has put more than 140 novels in contention. We need your learned opinions to winnow this down to a shortlist next week
Yes, graphic novels are thriving. (Well done, Booker)
Comic book Sabrina by Nick Drnaso is on the longlist for the prize, but it’s just the latest in a fine tradition
The Guardian view on graphic novels: expanding the literary horizon
Editorial: Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina presents the judges with an enviable problem of their own making – how to judge it against novels without pictures
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson review – a stunning debut novel
Longlisted for the Man Booker prize, this complex story about a troubled mother-daughter relationship creates a strange new mythology