Shorter cuts: news doesn’t get any smaller
The rise of hay-smoking, good news for older mums and the coming of a gay superheroHay smokedSeeing this a lot on menus. As in: "hay-smoked butter", "hay-smoked salmon". Don't understand how it works, but it tastes good.Good news for older mums!It's n...
Shorter cuts: news doesn’t get any smaller
The rise of hay-smoking, good news for older mums and the coming of a gay superheroHay smokedSeeing this a lot on menus. As in: "hay-smoked butter", "hay-smoked salmon". Don't understand how it works, but it tastes good.Good news for older mums!It's n...
Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead
The crime writer reveals the research underpinning his second Malcolm Fox novel – and the strict plan that yields a book a yearHow did you come to write The Impossible Dead?I was reading a newspaper and saw mention of a lawyer called William McRae. H...
Heist of the century: university corruption and the financial crisis
Why was the response from US academic experts to the global financial crisis so muted? In the second extract from his book Inside Job, Charles Ferguson argues that corruption in universities is deeply entrenchedMany people who saw my documentary Inside...
Pass notes No 3,178: Jack Kerouac
The Beat writer's masterpiece On the Road has been made into a film. But why has it taken 55 years to get it on to the screen?Age: Died in 1969, aged 47.Appearance: Dead Beat.Who was he? A leading novelist and poet of the Beat Generation.Oh right....
Heavy hitter from left field
British readers worried that US bestselling novel The Art of Fielding is purely about baseball can allay their fears. The sport is in the book to focus on the hero's very public crisis, says the authorThe Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach's debut novel of ...
Land grabbers: Africa’s hidden revolution
Vast swaths of Africa are being bought up by oligarchs, sheikhs and agribusiness corporations. But, as this extract from The Land Grabbers explains, centuries of history are being destroyedOmot Ochan was sitting in a remnant of forest on an old waterbu...
Heist of the century: Wall Street’s role in the financial crisis
Wall Street bankers could have averted the global financial crisis, so why didn't they? In this exclusive extract from his book Inside Job, Charles Ferguson argues that they should be prosecutedBernard L Madoff ran the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, ...
Fred Pearce on land grabbing
The science and environment author discusses a growing global threat• Read an extract from Fred Pearce's new book The Land GrabbersWhat inspired you to write The Land Grabbers?Over the last few years, I became aware of this hidden revolution taking p...
‘The Booker can drive people mad’
When Alan Hollinghurst's celebrated The Stranger's Child was omitted from the literary prize's shortlist, many questioned the award's credibility. Twelve months on, Britain's great stylist breaks his silence on the issue – and on what turns young peo...
Debut author: Ros Barber
The poet's first novel brings to life the theory that Christopher Marlowe survived and penned Shakespeare's worksA theory dismissed in a documentary as the stuff of fiction sparked 48-year-old Ros Barber's engrossing first novel, The Marlowe Papers (Sc...
Bafta TV special/Abi Morgan: A golden year for television
As the countdown to next week's British Academy Television Awards begins, Abi Morgan, screenwriter of The Hour, Shame and The Iron Lady, reveals why it's been a golden year for televisionMabel is unimpressed. "What are you doing?" "Writing a piece abou...
