A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back
Letters: Readers share their tips on discovering new authors and reading more widely
January 2024
Édouard Louis: ‘All my writing is political – and all my life is, too’
Ten years on from his first, brutal autofiction about growing up gay in a working-class village, the writer talks about his new novel, being a class defector – and how to take on Marine Le Pen
September 2023
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux review – an expert dissection of sex, age and power
The Nobel winning French writer documents her affair with a much younger man
August 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 books about solitary living
Where to start with
Where to start with: Annie Ernaux
June 2023
The Super 8 Years review – deeply personal documentary of Annie Ernaux’s family breakdown
The Super 8 Years review – the family life of a Nobel prizewinner caught on film
May 2023
Nobel literature prize fell into my life ‘like a bomb’, says Annie Ernaux
‘If it’s not a risk… it’s nothing’: Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux on her unapologetic career
April 2023
Look at the Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux review – supermarket blues
The Nobel laureate’s diaristic reflections on retail leave much to be desired
December 2022
The unconscious suffering of the replacement child
Nobel prize an institution ‘for men’, says literature laureate Annie Ernaux
October 2022
Four Nobels and counting: Fitzcarraldo, the little publisher that could
In Annie Ernaux’s Nobel prize we see the public value of our intimate histories
Gaby Wood
The Guardian view on Annie Ernaux: a vintage Nobel winner
‘We are made of words’: the radically intimate writing of Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux: the 2022 Nobel literature laureate’s greatest works
Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature
Salman Rushdie among favourites for this year’s Nobel prize for literature
September 2022
Book of the day
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux review – adrift in desire
The French writer’s record of an obsessive affair with a Russian diplomat is a riveting, sexually frank study of a woman in the throes of love and lust