Jeremy Cooper: 'My agent strongly advised me against writing fiction'
Sulaiman Addonia
I’m taking writing back to the rock’n’roll era!
The Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist on childhood trauma and its effect on his work, the importance of sex in stories and paying homage to your imagination
Naomi Klein
Nobody’s perfect – but that’s not an excuse for doing nothing
The Doppelganger writer and winner of the Women’s prize for nonfiction on the war in Gaza, current credibility of the left and posters for her book being torn down in London
‘Don’t read just one book about Sri Lanka’
VV Ganeshananthan on her civil war novel
‘I wouldn’t call it a victory’
Fossil Free Books organisers on Baillie Gifford’s exit from literary festival funding
Lorrie Moore
I identify with Beth in Little Women, who dies
Palestinian author Raja Shehadeh
All this solidarity from the world – yet nothing has changed
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Regulars
The books of my life
Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket: ‘I return to Toni Morrison’s Beloved every five years’
Big idea
The big idea: can you inherit memories from your ancestors?
The science of epigenetics suggests we can pass on trauma – but trust and compassion too
Where to start with
Where to start with: Rachel Cusk
From a novel sequence that dispenses with much of what we expect from fiction to fearlessly honest memoirs of motherhood and divorce, Cusk is a challenging writer. But also a genius
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Your holiday reading list, chosen by Zadie Smith, David Nicholls and more
Independent bookshop week
Meet the people behind three of the UK’s brilliant independent bookshops
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