The scene that got Stephen King “more hate mail about anything” he’d ever written
Would not have gone down well at cinemas
books Archives: 10/2025
Dick Cavett’s favourite books: a surprisingly unpretentious list
The legendary US talk show host selects the quirky and the classic.
Jonathan Franzen’s favourite opening line to a novel: “The very first impulse of the narrator”
“The method of the whole novel is here in a nutshell.”
Author behind ‘The Penguin Lessons’ denies sexual abuse claims
The allegations date back to the early 1970s.
