Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer
The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114
July 2024
Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’
Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated
March 2024
Book of the day
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange review – wounds of history
Tommy Orange: ‘My whole family has had problems with addiction, including myself’
May 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 books about being poor in America
From John Steinbeck to Tommy Orange, it’s an old story that keeps on going, in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth. These books help explain why
March 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about roots
From American giants such as Toni Morrison and James Baldwin to memoirs by Xiaolu Guo and Vladimir Nabokov, Nadia Owusu picks the best works that explore notions of home
April 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 novels about unconventional families
Trinidadian novelist Ingrid Persaud chooses books in which people attach themselves to ‘a something’ that might ease their loneliness
May 2019
Books that made me
Tommy Orange: ‘Maybe Jack Kerouac made more sense for a different generation’
The Native American writer on the beauty of Samanta Schweblin’s Mouthful of Birds – and the author that everyone should read
July 2018
Book of the day
There There by Tommy Orange review – Native American stories
There There by Tommy Orange review – moving and powerful
