Literary
‘I want the ecstasy rooted in real bodies in real times’: what makes sex in historical fiction so alluring?
The best funny poems to share with friends
Picador acquires two new novels from Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Iconic literary families that we can’t get enough of
Lola Jaye on the true story of Ndugu M'hali
The best literary fiction books of 2022
Why working-class queer stories are ignored
The Flannan Isles Vanishing: the story behind The Lamplighters
Maddie Mortimer on the rise of the genre-bending book
The most beautiful poems for funerals
Picador to publish two new novels by Cormac McCarthy
Michelle Zauner on her bestselling memoir of love and grief