The novel is an unconventional kind of bildungsroman

The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 award Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker prize for his novel Flesh. Szalay’s sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from his youth to midlife. The judges “had never read anything quite like it”, said panel chair Roddy Doyle, who won the prize in 1993. “It is, in many ways, a dark book, but it is a joy to read.” Continue reading...

Daniel Sandström återvänder till Per Svenssons bok ”Storstugan” och finner en skribent som ”förkroppsligade det bästa i…

It once seemed unlikely that four Swedes in sequins would become global pop icons. A new biography describes how the band became ubiquitous.

En ganska vanlig dansk familj står i centrum i Theis Ørntoft hyllade roman ”Jordisk”. Eller kanske är det något annat som är kärnan, undrar Jonas Thente.

Vad är ett sant mästerverk?Vi har bett några skribenter att beskriva något som de klassar som fulländat, det må vara litteratur eller musik, en filmkyss eller ett simhopp, en maträtt eller ett hus. Da...