Susie Goldsbrough

The two-time Booker shortlisted writer found mainstream success with her memoirs about love and death. Now she’s back with a book about Gertrude Stein

Set in Moscow in 1913, Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1988 novel, The Beginning of Spring, lovingly evokes Russia in the twilight years of the old order

Siri Hustvedt’s new memoir of life with Paul Auster shows that yes, talented writers can live and work together in fruitful harmony — just look at these literary pairings

The violent derision that first greeted the American writer and the YBA from Margate shows us that they got it right

The female lead of a Hollywood film expressing a preference for work over children still feels a little transgressive

In This Dark Night, literature professor Deborah Lutz tells the story of the weirdest Brontë sister, a sheltered young woman who wrote the great English novel of erotic obsession

Our critics round up their picks of the latest releases from Paul McCartney to Stormzy

Our critics choose their recent favourites including Elizabeth Strout’s latest tearjerker and a Booker-shortlisted Doris Lessing novel

The Woman’s Hour presenter’s new series with female guests, including Meera Syal and Gisèle Pelicot, is thoughtful and incisive

A new production of Cole Porter’s musical has opened at the Barbican, starring Freddie Fox and Felicity Kendal. It’s a sign of our romanticism