Literary

'Shaking the dust off the Dead White Men curriculum': Jeffrey Boakye on updating the literary canon

'My phone became a porthole into possible types of motherhood': lockdown parenting, the internet and me

Hernan Diaz on his favourite American classics

'I wanted to write about Roman life from below': James Hynes on his historical novel, Sparrow

'Through the artifice of putting words into those rhythms and into that metre, you create a different kind of truth': Kae Tempest on their new collection

Young Mungo: the story of the cover

'Believe it or not, the pandemic was entirely incidental to the plot.' Emily St. John Mandel on Station Eleven

A guide to Emily St. John Mandel's books in order

Quiz: Fiendishly difficult literary quiz

'It is solidarity. It is action. It is care': why we need more honest portrayals of motherhood

Our favourite Irish poets

The best books about time travel to read right now