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Narrative 10 by Jo Ann Beard — We caught up with Jo Ann Beard as she marks the publica...

More than 20 authors and reviewers select their favourite fiction and nonfiction titles of the year

Writer brings to bear a poet’s precision, a novelist’s empathy and an essayist’s concentrated thought

From Toni Morrison and Giacometti, to Succession, The West Wing, The Lord of the Rings and more – the novelist lets us into her cultural life

In three decades of writing, American author Jo Ann Beard has produced just 21 stories. She talks to Nick Duerden about patience, productivity and why her moment may now have finally arrived

The American essayist on feeling panicky about how her subjects will react, the relief of typing ‘The End’, and why she won’t reveal her bedside reads

Cheri Tremble <strong>| </strong>Joe Taylor/Luton Town <strong>| </strong>Gnocchi recipe

The US essayist is a rare talent. In this slim volume she imagines a woman’s dying days with shocking clarity

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

Alexandra Auder, DON'T CALL ME HOME: A MEMOIR, in conversation with Jo Ann Beard Alexandra Auder talks about her moving and wickedly funny memoir, DON'T CALL ME HOME, with author Jo Ann Beard.