Fossil Free Books’ statement also demands that the book festival sponsor stops investing in ‘companies that profit from Israeli apartheid, occupation and genocide’More than 200 authors including Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney and George Monbiot have signed a statement by Fossil Free Books (FFB), which puts increased pressure on investment management firm...

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian townAlice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92Margaret Atwood reads Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro – audioBack in 2006,...

Frustration drives in an anxious Zoomer’s tour of the web“My rules for our world weren’t followed.” Thus laments Honor Levy, NYC lit scene enfant terrible, in her debut short story collection, My First Book. Levy’s legislative longing becomes a kind of refrain, revisited and reconstructed throughout the book’s vignettes. These index the worries and...

In this exclusive recording, The Handmaid’s Tale author reads the eponymous short story from the late Munro’s first collection in 1968Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92Five of the best Alice Munro short stories Continue reading...

A memoir from the human star of My Octopus Teacher shows unjustified confidence in interpreting nature’s messagesThe life of a nature documentary maker can be rough. It nearly killed Craig Foster, creator and human co-star of the Oscar-winning My Octopus Teacher. After 25 years of filming, his brain, lungs and liver were “full of parasites” picked up...

The Irish novelist is at the height of his powers with a sequel to Brooklyn, set twenty years laterAsked recently why he had chosen to write a sequel to his much-loved 2009 novel, Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín said, “The answer is why not? The other answer is that there are very good reasons not. I mean, leave it alone – why interfere with people’s imaginations...