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Business leaders including Robin Budenberg, Jeremy Darroch and Mark Thompson knighted
From a Tan Twan Eng tale of colonial intrigue to the epoch-defining voice of Martin Amis
The writer’s life might best be understood as one long reply to George Orwell’s idea that only plainness can illuminate truth
A comic prodigy who relished vulgarity and made low-life subject matter a speciality, he was always a literary critic at heart
The banality of evil is on full display in Jonathan Glazer’s stunningly good film about the family living next door to the death camp
The British novelist whose swagger and love of literary pyrotechnics produced dazzling, sardonic prose
Writer dubbed ‘the erstwhile Mick Jagger of British letters’ was drawn to the underbelly of society
Laura Battle selects her must-read titles
The writer’s wry, companionable late-style infuses this fictionalised memoir
Jack Fairweather’s Costa Book of the Year, plus Martin Amis, Deborah Orr and William Gibson
The trend is to parsimony and empty spaces — but this spartan ideal comes at a cost
The Nobel Prize winner has proved unusually consistent and enduring
A non-fiction collection finds the writer acute on literature but straining to avoid the shadow cast by his own work
Owning harrowing books has become like possession of Joy Division albums, a claim to sophistication
Can algorithms and big data help you write a best-selling book?
We await his judgment on Labour under Corbyn, the malaise of Europe and technology’s dark potential
The author revisits the Holocaust
Five pools that mirror the action of their respective novels
Britain has tightened security laws at many moments without becoming an unfree country
The erstwhile Mick Jagger of British letters talks longevity, literary lechery, America’s ‘veins of madness’ and his new book – a love story set in Auschwitz
We are missing a British writer to whom we can turn and learn from at moments of national consequence or crisis
FT books editor Lorien Kite on Granta’s latest selection of the Best of Young British Novelists
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