Literature

Literary translation is the rewriting of a novel, poem, play or other creative work from one language into another so that it works as literature in its new language, keeping its voice, rhythm, humour and effect as well as its meaning. The translator is a writer in their own right: in the UK they are…

Matt Heart on Tender Eyes, the Ohio horror series he writes with a soundtrack for every story: fear, food, real Toledo history and why a book needs music.

Book covers influence reading because they are the first information a reader gets, and people use that information to guess genre, tone and quality before they read a word. The influence is measurable but smaller than the myth suggests: in UK survey data for the year to May 2024, 13% of book purchases were influenced…

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2026 has gone to the Canadian author Anne Carson, announced by the Swedish Academy on 8 October 2026 as a sole award, prize share 1/1, worth SEK 12 million. The

Visitors reach the Lake District already carrying a picture of it. Emma Richmond traces how Wordsworth, the guidebooks and the railway taught us where to stand and what to see.

A historian at King's College London has built a career on the parts of the recent past that everyone lived through and nobody mythologised: conscription, Thatcherism, occupation, 1968.

In 2006 the world was told that a lost gospel made Judas a hero. A professor at Rice University read the Coptic and said it did the opposite. A case study in how popular history gets corrected.

She was born on 31 July 1965, which makes today her sixty-first birthday and, by a coincidence she wrote into the books, her most famous character's too. The story attached to that date has been told

The Booker Prize, established in 1969, primarily rewards the best eligible novel published in the UK and Ireland, celebrating literary ambition, stylistic innovation, and a distinct authorial voice. I

A Christmas Carol did more than entertain - it reshaped British Christmas traditions. How Dickens transformed a minor holiday into the cultural centrepiece it remains today.

In 'The Strangers', Ekow Eshun reconstructs the lives of Ira Aldridge, Matthew Henson, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, and Justin Fashanu to explore Black masculinity.

An exploration of the enduring divide between literary and genre fiction, examining historical prejudices, the Ishiguro-Le Guin debate, and the BookTok effect.

An exploration of the surging phenomenon of celebrity authors, from transparent collaborations to controversial ghostwriting, and its impact on publishing.

The internet was convinced Taylor Swift wrote the spy thriller Argylle. The truth, revealed on the day of the film’s release, proved to be an unprecedented literary collaboration.