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…

The second summer of love traded LSD, kaftans and guitars for MDMA, smileys and drum machines, but the second summer of Britpop looks eerily like the first. The lager, combat trousers and indie anthem

How the late novelist’s time at the magazine in the 1970s helped develop his style and voice.

From politics and Big Tech to history and identity, the essential books for the year ahead.

A new book of pictures and drawings is an attempt to help adults recall what the world looks like to a child.

“How as a writer do you tell a story that needs to be shared, if it is not your story?” The question is at the heart of Diego Garcia, and here is one of the answers this restlessly inventive book prop

On Chagos, capitalism and collaborating on their Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Diego Garcia.

Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984, and raised in south London – she has since lived in Berlin, Budapest, Paris and New York, and settled in Prague in 2014. The author of seven novels, in 2013

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The novelist on Liz Truss, Salman Rushdie, and why he finally decided to write his own story into his new novel, Lessons.

The iPod, with its “shuffle” feature, was often accused of pushing listeners away from the album. Now it feels like a symbol of simpler times.