Sadly, the pair stopped short of what I view as the greatest challenge: producing novels that reflect what Americans like and dislike in fiction. Now, at last, with People’s Choice Literature, by the ...

Best summer books of 2025: Roula Khalaf, Stephen Bush and other FT journalists pick their favourites ...

Barbara Holdridge and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of such famous writers as Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot reciting their work. Holdridge died Monday at 95.

Author John Birdsall dishes about his new history of LGBTQ+ food writers and chefs, and how queer cookery can meet the moment ...

The film adaptation of her Booker-nominated novel is the latest step in extraordinary revival and flowering of the writer’s ...

An impish, self-mocking writer, Mr. White was known for his candid writing on gay relationships and sex. His more than two dozen books included “The Joy of Gay Sex” (1977), an illustration ...

Gertrude Stein and her literary rival. Stein’s struggles were amplified by Joyce’s triumphs – but they both shared an artistic vision Gertrude Stein at her desk in Paris in the 1930s.

This forensically researched and lengthy tome uses previously unearthed documents that throw light on Stein’s personal relationships and her attitude to her work and legacy ...

Exploring Paris’s Left Bank and its oldest neighbourhood, Latin Quarter. The Left Bank is famous for attracting writers and artists like Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and Gertrude Stein but ...

There are no excuses and no exceptions, for as the poet Gertrude Stein put it: “We are always the same age inside.” Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the ...