Literary

Lola Jaye on the true story of Ndugu M'hali

Why working-class queer stories are ignored

The Flannan Isles Vanishing: the story behind The Lamplighters

Maddie Mortimer on the rise of the genre-bending book

The most beautiful poems for funerals

Picador to publish two new novels by Cormac McCarthy

Michelle Zauner on her bestselling memoir of love and grief

Women in Translation: how to read the world

Five authors whose lives are as fascinating as their fiction

The rise of the realistic woman in literature

Adam Kay talks This is Going to Hurt with Mark Watson

Jon Ronson on our changing relationship with social justice