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Spend your 2024 getting lost in very good novels – there are plenty to choose from. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to the year’s unmissable fiction

Salman Rushdie’s plans to publish a book about a 2022 attempt on his life may delay the trial of his alleged attacker, which is scheduled to begin next week

When I started my podcast, Studies in Taylor Swift, in the spring of 2021, I felt that I was simultaneously helping to invent, and trying to catch up to, the academic discipline of Taylor Swift studies. Though there wasn’t much published on reading Swift as literature, I had no trouble…

A new book called Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African tells the story of how the world’s most famous carbonated drink conquered the continent. It’s a tale of marketing gumption and high politics and is the product of years of research by critical writing lecturer Sara Byala, who researches histories of…

Leading defamation barrister who led the courtroom case against the Holocaust denier David Irving in 2000

A new adaptation of the hugely successful crime writer’s book Fool Me Once comes to Netflix on New Year’s Day

From Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempt on his life to Sathnam Sanghera’s thoughts on imperialism via the story of the Tory party’s decline, here are the big hitters coming your way next year

The first great lockdown novel, new tales from David Nicholls, Sarah Perry and Percival Everett, and Rachel Kushner’s contender for the Booker… next year promises to be special

Explore 100 short stories of 20th century compiled & edited by V. Arasu, former head of Tamil Department, University of Madras. Priced at ₹300, the collection covers Pudumaipithan to C.S. Chellappa & includes brief notes about all the writers.