Anna Leszkiewicz

Caroline Darian’s I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again – an account of her father’s abuse of her mother – suggests memoir can be an antidote to doubt, shame and silence.

The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on visual art, writing womanhood, and the value of difficulty in literature.

As the singer showcased her new album Patterns in Repeat at Hackney Church, the parallels across her work – and the eerie maturity of her early records – were strikingly clear.

The dream that One Direction represented now seems an obvious nightmare.

Little Simz and SZA made Coldplay look bland in a festival full of politics, nostalgia and peeing in cups.

The pop star won the diverse festival crowd over by giving her usually light as air, candy floss pop songs new weight and edge.

At Wembley Stadium, the pop star presented a kaleidoscopic, whiplash-inducing spectacle that passed by in a blur.

In the week that Courtney Love called Taylor Swift “not important” (“She might be a safe space for girls,” Love said, “but she’s not interesting as an artist”) comes The Tortured Poets Department, Swi

Caledonian Road is a brick of a novel lobbed at the towering glass houses of London.

The second season of the podcast has a stellar guest list, including Billie Jean King, Patti Smith and Julie Andrews.

The Chinese-Icelandic singer mixes classical and jazz influences in her old-fashioned take on pop.

Sheila Heti’s new book does not so much begin as announce itself. Its first sentence reads as a declaration of purpose, as if the book had simply spoken itself into existence. “A book about how diffic

The Canadian novelist’s Alphabetical Diaries find a new way to capture the rhythms of human consciousness.

This is a rare example of a piece of drama not just capturing, but creating, a national moment.

It’s just a game, and yet this elaborate wink murder is full of betrayal, revelation and bitchiness. It is so satisfying to watch.

Tristan Redman grew up in a house full of unexplained happenings. In his childhood bedroom on the third floor of a Victorian home in London, lamps flickered and moved on their own. He left home, went

Amy Arnold was first shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2019, for her debut novel, Slip of a Fish: a daring psychological portrait of a vulnerable woman that asks the reader h

The singer’s memoir of her conservatorship is full of cartoonish villains and medieval misogyny. But this isn’t a fable – it’s real.

When Jonathan Goldstein started his podcast series Heavyweight in 2016, he pitched himself as a solver of problems. Goldstein, a writer and veteran contributor to This American Life, would help people

How did the TV presenter’s terminally twee stories of death and Waitrose become the bestselling novels in the UK?