Tom Gatti

The award for inventive fiction goes to a book replete with ideas about art, literature and freedom.

The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on making art from objects, and what civil wars taught her about human nature.

In Sam Mendes’s revival, an epic narrative of American capitalism is translated into thrillingly stripped-back theatre.

A new film documents the band’s cautious reconciliation at Damon Albarn’s very big house in the country.

A memorial for the novelist was a reminder that language should be a source of joy.

At London’s O2 arena, the 21-year old singer is at her best – and most distinctive – channelling anger and chaos.

For all its themes of cronyism and catastrophe, the Smile’s Wall of Eyes suggests that Yorke has found serenity in his art.

The 2023 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction, run in association with the New Statesman, has been won by Benjamin Myers’s Cuddy, a novel about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne that spans the 7th and 21st centuries

The Goldsmiths-shortlisted author on aliens, revolutionary France and our era of misinformation.

It is David Walliams’s world, we just live in it. At least that is how it seems to many British parents, trapped in what he might call the Burptastic Snot-sphere of Mr Wallybottom. Walliams’s children’s books, which frame him as the hilarious, heart-warming heir to Roald Dahl, are inescapable: since 2013 he has produced between two and four a year. In 2019 the TV comedian joined a small group of authors – including JK Rowling and Dan Brown – whose writing has earned more than £100m in the UK. I…