American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman review – thoughts for the day
Unfolding over 24 hours, this captivating novel set inside the head of a woman consumed by her obsessions is as engrossing as it is unusual
In brief: Hope; Wild Chocolate; Night Watch – review
The tragicomic collapse of a wealthy family; a genre-busting exploration of the cacao trade; and a tough Pulitzer-winning tale of the US civil war
In life, David Lodge was surprisingly mirthless. Luckily, his wife was a hoot
A delightful but decidedly unfunny encounter with the author led to a train of thought about his comic books
Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips review – Windrush struggles
This elegaic novel tracks a West Indian man’s life in London over decades, exploring the emotional cost of leaving home and being met by hatred and rejection
David Lodge obituary
Booker prize-nominated author and critic who was known for his Catholic novels and satires on academic life
‘His books animated academia for me’: how David Lodge inspired my campus novel
His trilogy captured my heart – and while Amis, Bradbury and Jacobson spoke to me, Lodge’s writing had an extra something, says Janice Hallett
‘It’s largely thanks to him that the British comic novel remains in good health’: David Lodge remembered by Jonathan Coe
The author always had a warmth and wry wisdom to his characterisations and his eye for the absurd ensured he was one of the most truthful of postwar novelists
David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89
The author of more than two dozen books is best known for his trio set in a fictionalised version of the University of Birmingham, where he worked from 1960 to 1987
Once dismissed as frivolous, ‘romancelandia’ is getting political
Many in the romance book community have rallied voters through podcasts and phone banks – and joined school boards
Ferdia Lennon: ‘Tolstoy made me more forgiving of myself and other people’
The prize-winning author on a masterclass from Hilary Mantel, rereading James Joyce, and coming back to Wuthering Heights
Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami review – humanity’s future
The spectre of extinction hangs over the Japanese writer’s brilliantly strange and unsettling vision of evolution
Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan review – a fresh take on modern love
The author of Bellies explores contemporary questions of sex, love, relationship etiquette and gender identity
Lazarus Man by Richard Price review – hard times in Harlem
The collapse of a brownstone building sparks this panoramic view of life in a New York neighbourhood, from a writer on The Wire
The Guardian view on rewriting classics: what the Dickens?
Editorial: Retellings of novels like Huckleberry Finn and David Copperfield help to keep the canon alive
Fiction to look out for in 2025
An epic family saga, new novels from Natasha Brown and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus a David Szalay masterpiece… the coming year looks good