Madhavi Menon | Ann Patchett | Lemn Sissay | Marianne Boruch

Aboriginal poet and author Ali Cobby Eckermann records the importance of ritual and recognition

Issues of visibility and invisibility form the crux of Rachel Kushner’s bold and heartbreaking novels

The new novel by Gary Shteyngart's Lake Success is more ouch-funny than ha-ha funny

A poet’s response to MeToo

AM Homes, a master of suburban Gothic noir, explores the existential question of how to live and how to be

Deborah Levy, author of ‘living autobiographies’, feels happiest by the ocean and in a room of her own

Margo Jefferson’s memoir about growing up as an elite African-American woman moves between femininity and feminism without getting polemical on either

Aminatta Forna and the impossibility of happiness

Novelist, poet and essayist, Siri Hustvedt is an intimidating figure in her books as well as in her exploration of ideas

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…