Claire Allfree

In a series of quiet, elegant fragments, Held, a Booker-shortlisted novel by Anne Michaels, shows us a panorama of love, death and grief

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes Claire Allfree

This year’s Booker victor talks about success, the crisis in our literary culture and how she plans to spend her prize money

The star of Cheaters, the BBC’s hottest comedy, talks about overcoming prejudice, the joy of Taskmaster and why sex scenes can be liberating

Real life has overtaken Beru Tessema's ebullient comedy about the online quicksands of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin –DOGE is also the acronym for

Corporate sponsorship of cultural institutions has become a minefield in the past few years – and Baillie Gifford is no exception

Claire Allfree reviews the best literary fiction out now.

Richard Flanagan's hybrid memoir, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction this week, isn't a novel, although it's been shortlisted for a fiction prize in France.

“Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote WH Auden in his 1939 poem In Memory of WB Yeats.

The author on how HG Wells inspired the bombing of Hiroshima, rejecting the prize money – and why books shouldn’t push ‘ideology’