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The US author, film-maker and Zen Buddhist priest on smart young girls, the difference between irony and cynicism, and working her way through 13 volumes of Chekhov ...

A noble, if ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to argue that Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay spending a few weeks in 1726 together was a momentous turning point in each man's career ...

Evans's The Correspondent and the BBC journalist's 'people's history' of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes ...

A reclusive artist is the reluctant subject of a journalist's attention in a rich world of scents, scenery and secrets ...

This impressive and charismatic debut novel revisits an actor and a director over various collaborations ...

Awards for prose, children's writing and poetry, for writers of colour in UK and Ireland, come with £1,000 ...

Sarah Wynn-Williams remained silent during her hour-long appearance, but sales of Careless People have since increased by more than 300%

Peter Pan, Christopher Robin and Alice in Wonderland being the star of a classic story might seem like a dream, but there's a dark side, argues the author of The Children ...

A young woman begins a career in the adult industry while, 30 years later, her friend tries to find out what happened to her, in an addictive, twist-filled story ...

This account of the Islamic Republic and its discontents told via six contrasting lives should be required reading ...