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The conversation: Should we celebrate scathing book reviews?

The Hatchet Job of the Year is a new literary prize for the best scathing book review. Nominee Geoff Dyer and Anna Baddeley, who set it up, discuss the role of criticismA new literary prize has been established – Hatchet Job of the Year – whic...

Salman Rushdie

The acclaimed author, who is publishing a long-awaited memoir of his decade in hiding from a murderous fatwa, finds himself threatened once more by fanatics over The Satanic VersesFollowing several days of rumour, it was confirmed last week that Salman...

Literary events in 2012

More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlightsJanuary10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin ...

What’s the definition of a great book?

As the inevitable rows on prize juries testify, it's not easy to say – but well-informed argument does provide some useful pointersMartyn Goff – formerly the administrator of the Man Booker prize, a puckish and highly literate man about town, novel...

Downton Abbey’s Matthew Crawley to be Booker judge

Man Booker judges' panel to be chaired by Sir Peter StothardActor Dan Stevens, best known as Downton Abbey's Matthew Crawley – the war hero consigned to a wheelchair for life before making an abrupt recovery – is to be a judge for next year's Man B...

Booker club

Characters without personality, comedy without mirth – how McEwan's worst novel won the Booker is a deep mysteryBecause Booker prize deliberations go on behind closed doors, we'll never really know what led the judging panel to Ian McEwan's Amsterdam...

A publishing broadside from the streets of Hebden Bridge

Arthritic London publishers. Agents stuck in rusting tramlines. Come north, talented young writers, says guest blogger Kevin Duffy, and the Yorkshire Pennines will make your name.We have a problem in Hebden Bridge. Angry poets. They hang round street c...

A publishing broadside from the streets of Hebden Bridge

Arthritic London publishers. Agents stuck in rusting tramlines. Come north, talented young writers, says guest blogger Kevin Duffy, and the Yorkshire Pennines will make your name.We have a problem in Hebden Bridge. Angry poets. They hang round street c...

Why flatpack fiction will always be two dimensional

As the Booker shortlist proved, too many modern novels are assembled for a marketThere's a fairly widespread view that English fiction is in the doldrums. This year's showcase for the contemporary novel, the Man Booker prize, a bellwether for our liter...

From the archive, 8 November 1975: Masterpieces, medicine and bedside tables

Originally published in the Guardian on 8 November 1975[James] Joyce's Nora was what you would call a scrubber nowadays. He met her while she was skivvying in a pub. Once settled in Trieste she used to sit around all day in sexy knickers blowing bubble...

Peter Stothard to chair 2012 Booker jury

Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, is to chair the judges for the 2012 awardAfter Stella Rimington brought a storm of righteous literary rage down on this year's Man Booker prize by announcing her quest for "readable" books, organ...

From Booker to Bafta: do arts awards matter?

The awards season, with all its squabbles, is under way. Actor Diana Quick and Poetry Society chief Judith Palmer discuss winning, losing, and marching off in a huffAs awards season gets under way and the inevitable controversies unfold, Oliver La...

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