Authors

This week, Ian McEwan said his new AI novel was not science fiction - and the world went mad. Sarah Ditum looks at why the genre retains its outsider status  Read more

This past week has felt like a rough century in book publishing, especially if you're a woman of color in this traditionally white and monied industry. In many ways, it's still a 19th-century business, with an overall culture and compensation structure that reflect another era.  Read more

Joseph Heller once told The Paris Review that his editor, Robert Gottlieb, thought "it was a shame" that the reader didn't get to a particular chapter until late in Catch-22.  Read more

When you see publishers and authors chatting chummily at book parties, you're likely to think that they're on the same side - the side of great literature and the free flow of ideas.  Read more

If a book is good, if it's artful, entertaining, and informative, should it matter who the author is? Once upon a time, many readers would have said no. It was a long-standing protocol of book appreciation to consider things like the gender, sexuality, ethnicity, personal vices, personal virtues (if any), and prior reputation of the author irrelevant to a book's merits.  Read more