Debut novel challenges traditions of the Arab world
Saleem Haddad’s first novel Guapa follows a day in the life of a gay man in an Arab city, questioning deep-set societal expectations.
Strong contenders for 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry
Books Editor Jingjie Cheng looks at this year’s T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist, whose winner is announced on Monday
The story of one life, and another, and another, and another
Paul Auster’s Booker-nominated 4321 is an audacious work of metafiction, which revels in its multiple timelines.
‘Tis the season to be reading
Felix Books’ editors Jingjie Cheng and Alice Peberdy give you stocking-filler ideas (that last longer than chocolate, promise)
2017 roundup: the best books of the year
Felix Books writers choose their favourite reads released this year
Literature should not just be about ‘dead white men’
Following a Cambridge University English student’s call to ‘decolonise’ the English Literature syllabus to include more BAME writers, Books Editor Jingjie Cheng gives her take on the issue.
Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, is master of words and the heart
Last Thursday, British writer Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. Books editor Jingjie Cheng writes about her experience with the writer and his works.
Seeing the world through literature – so many books, so little time
Reading goes hand in hand with travelling, introducing you to local novels, new ideas, and amazing bookshops
Decolonising the canon: Felix recommends
Following on from calls in Cambridge to include more BAME authors in its curriculum, Felix makes some suggestions.
A women’s alternative to the Booker
Books Writer Katie Cook introduces the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and gives her take on this year’s winner – Naomi Alderman, whose novel The Power centres around gender and violence.
Hollywood has brought Atwood’s dystopia to the screen, and now into reality
Despite being over 30 years old, The Handmaid’s Tale, with its warning of a future of curtailed women’s rights, is as disturbingly familiar as ever.
In the relentless tread of time, a man searches for the greater miracle of life
Austrian writer Thomas Glavinic’s The Greater Miracle explores one man’s life when pushed to the extreme in a brilliant piece of storytelling.