Max Porter:'All that white space is space for you to be in'

Max Porter:'All that white space is space for you to be in'

The novelist follows-up his acclaimed Grief is the Thing with Feathers,with a stunning new novel that takes on the mythic figure of The Green Man.

  • byMelanie Kembrey

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David Vann and his years of writing about suicide

David Vann and his years of writing about suicide

At last David Vann feels that he can move on from writing about his father's suicide.

  • byJason Steger
Alexander Chee:'You do this so you are more human to yourself'

Alexander Chee:'You do this so you are more human to yourself'

His recent essay collection is a poignant meditation on how vanishing can also be a form of revealing when it comes to identity.

  • byMelanie Kembrey
Exploded View review:Carrie Tiffany's powerful and poetic novel of violation

Exploded View review:Carrie Tiffany's powerful and poetic novel of violation

Carrie Tiffany's third,dark novel reveals its narrator's terrible predicament obliquely and in carefully curated language.

  • byFelicity Plunkett
Islands review:Peggy Frew's story of a family on the verge of disintegration

Islands review:Peggy Frew's story of a family on the verge of disintegration

Peggy Frew's scattered chronology plays with the idea of fault lines widening across generations and the tragic inevitability of damaged people hurting others.

  • byDaniel Herborn
Godspeed review:Casey Legler's memoir of sex and drugs and swimming pools

Godspeed review:Casey Legler's memoir of sex and drugs and swimming pools

On one level this is a brutally honest tale,savage but poetic.

  • bySteven Carroll
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Peter Coleman remembered as'distinguished writer and thinker'

Peter Coleman remembered as'distinguished writer and thinker'

The former politician and writer died on Sunday night.

  • byLaura Chung
Interview:Rachel Kushner on The Mars Room and the US prison system

Interview:Rachel Kushner on The Mars Room and the US prison system

The novelist writes of a world she knows - of white punks on dope and incarcerated women.

  • byMelanie Kembrey
New voices in young-adult fiction reviews:Overcoming mob mentality

New voices in young-adult fiction reviews:Overcoming mob mentality

These YA novels all touch on the near impossibility for teens to remain unaffected by the opinions of others in the internet age.

  • byAngie Schiavone
Diving into Glass review:Caro Llewellyn's sweet memoir of two difficult lives

Diving into Glass review:Caro Llewellyn's sweet memoir of two difficult lives

Caro Llewellyn recalls the trials of her beloved father and her own difficult times.

  • byKate Holden
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage review:Judith Brett on compulsory votes

From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage review:Judith Brett on compulsory votes

The tale of compulsory voting is only one of the fascinating stories contained in Judith Brett's new book.

  • byAndrew Leigh