Literary

Gabriel Roth & Megan Abbott exchange letters

Qais Akbar Omar on writing and the real Afghanistan

Photo essay: A Fort of Nine Towers

Sunjeev Sahota's life in books

An interview with Sarah Rayner

Why You Should Read B. S. Johnson

Is Harvest Crace’s best?

Ten things we've learnt about love from ten Picador books

The Joy of Hindsight by Sarah Rayner

Ten things I’ve learnt about making a book: a journey from computer file to warehouse

Emma Donoghue on reading and writing

Jon Ronson has an unlikely hero of the year