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Andrew Motion Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a version for our time (Norton, £30). And something new made immediate: Hannah Sullivan’s second collection of poems, Was It For This (Faber, £12.99), ambitiously extends

From murder mysteries to comic novels, Maggie Shipstead, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Nina Stibbe, Paul Murray and other authors choose unputdownable favourites for your summer break

Whether you're into aliens, shipwrecks, or gladiators, this season's new releases are a thrill ride to remember.

For me, the experience of viewing this installation was immediately reminiscent of my first read of Sophie Mackintosh’s new novel, Cursed Bread—a slowly rising suffocation mixed with a hint of deep existential dread without clear cause. As Cursed Bread moves through alternating chapters, shifting back and forth through time, there is a slowly accumulating experience of vertiginous panic.

Running since 1983, the list spotlights 20 novelists under the age of 40 every 10 years

The journal’s once-in-a-decade selection of the best fiction writers under 40 has broadened its selection of 20 to include authors who ‘regard the UK as their home’

Monster stories, fairy tales, otherworldly fantasies, and sorrowful mysteries.

A vivid and visceral account of a postwar French village and its sudden descent into the grip of madness, Cursed Bread is a dark and fevered journey…

Bernie Sanders has some thoughts on capitalism, while we should all be thinking more about the animals we...

Bernie Sanders has some thoughts on capitalism, while we should all be thinking more about the animals we...