The year 2025 brought us more books about and from Ukraine that carry an inescapable heaviness, with war present on almost ...

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Fackham Hall has a relatively straightforward plotline, especially for fans of the historical drama genre. Poppy Davenport ( ...

Bruce Willis starred in the 1999 adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions, and the film deserves to become a cult ...

What Edward St Aubyn has done is tougher than that: he has written a contemporary satire about a literary prize that touches on universal problems of culture and value. It is a work whose cleverness ...

No one directs a movie like Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Decision to Leave), and the South Korean auteur puts on a master class of lithe, silky, sumptuous storytelling with No Other Choice.

On 5 October 2025, Britain lost one of its most cherished literary voices. Dame Jilly Cooper passed away peacefully at the age of 88, leaving behind a legacy of wit, insight, and storytelling that ...

A university that can’t take a joke has a bigger problem than the joke itself. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, UF was home to The Orange Peel, a satirical magazine that skewered campus life ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2025 issue. The opening pages of José Skinner’s new novel The Search Committee seem to promise readers a merciless academic satire set in Texas’ ...

A novel about the Chinese diaspora in Australia, described as shimmering with satire, has won Brisbane author Siang Lu the Miles Franklin literary award. It was rejected more than 200 times, both in ...