Literary

Mark Kermode's top five hatchet jobs

Writing as therapy: the anxiety sponge

Writing as therapy: the narrative of anxiety

Shakespeare, plagues, and a post-apocalyptic novel

Rachael Boast shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize

How writing a book answered a thirty-year-old question

Kae Tempest in the studio

Gerard Woodward on hiding and revealing in Vanishing

The Child Who reading guide

Our favourite books about Afghanistan

Nickolas Butler on how his novel Shotgun Lovesongs came to be

Hannah Kent on the most powerful landscapes in fiction