Sheena Iyengar has devoted a lifetime to studying the choices we make. This social psychologist’s latest work explains why too many choices confound us.
Stieg Larsson’s biographer reveals the formidable journalist behind the man who wrote the crime thriller of the millennium, and the children’s book character which inspired the sketch of the girl with the dragon tattoo.
Unfinished last works by famous authors have always intrigued readers. Just as fascinating is Herge’s last Tintin, where Haddock loses his taste for whisky and the pages turn blank even as Tintin faces inevitable death.
Hanif Kureishi’s older stories are brilliant, funny and compelling. But the newer ones are a disappointment.
A novel about the Holocaust that says a lot without even seeming to.
An extract from Martel’s novel, within which is incorporated a play about a donkey (Beatrice) and a monkey (Virgil).
Yann Martel on his fascination with animals, the Holocaust, and his new novel.
Hanif Kureishi on writing, racism and radical Islam.
When a renowned free market economist takes to translating an entire epic from the original classical Sanskrit, his passion can only be marvelled at.
Anne Applebaum believes there are many more Gulags that need to be written, and also that her book may not end such tragedies.