Katherine Cooper
25 February 2026
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing, the Asian horror novel with added bite
The genre is big business - but Alice Evelyn Yang’s intoxicating debut novel has ambitions well beyond gore and fantasy
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AI partners who can’t say no
What happens to real women when men get used to girlfriends they can design and silence?
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When Gen Z goes to war
From Mariupol to Tehran, Cecilia Sala’s new book captures young people forced into extraordinary acts of resistance
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Edward Said and the war on intellectuals
The writer’s Reith Lecture, just reprinted, caused controversy in 1993 – but its conclusions seem oddly prescient
Read the full article17 December 2025
Iceland’s literary Xmas
The country’s wartime tradition of giving novels has become a key part of the season
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Margaret Atwood settles the score
At 86, the author has finally written a memoir, and it’s everything you’d want it to be
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The book from 1939 that reads like breaking news
Leonard Woolf’s The Barbarians At The Gate warns that tyranny begins not with tanks in the streets, but with compassion being turned off in the public mind
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The goddess of small things
Avant-garde writer Claire Louise Bennett’s new novel is an otherworldly hymn to minutiae
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We need bell hooks more than ever
As Trump tries to claim the arts for his elite, the Black feminist trailblazer makes the case for them belonging to everyone
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Irene Solà’s whispering tales of devils and lost souls
Four generations of women inhabit a landscape of wolves, fascists and devils in the Catalan writer’s haunting novel
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Taking a tour through the sidestreets of your mind
A book that goes from Berlin to Bogotá on a hallucinatory walk through space, time, and memory
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Anthony Bourdain’s raw meat, well done
Eight years after his death, a reissue of Kitchen Confidential still burns with wit and rage
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