Books

In These are Addressed to You, the writer and artist reflects on the meaning of letters, correspondence and the epistolic form

In her latest book, the celebrated critic dissects culture, high and low – with wit, cool intellect and the flair of important gossip

The Prototype Prize short-form category winner traces early 20th-century trans histories through institutional archives and poetry 

From Foday Mannah’s crime debut to Ishion Hutchinson’s new essays, our editors pick the best reads for every kind of escape

In her new book, the writer examines how the rhetorical strategies once championed by the cultural left have become tools for the political right

The celebrated British author on why her new work of non-fiction, ‘Love in Exile’, is her most revealing book yet

In a newly translated collection, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, Ditlevsen's social realism portrays all walks of life

An urgent new book presents a housing vision centred on collectivity and communal living

From an unfinished Danish magnum opus to the latest title by Annie Ernaux, frieze editors list the books they loved most this year

In her latest book, the novelist and essayist considers the use of fiction and literary criticism in times of war and conflict 

To celebrate the recent release of her book, An Image of My Name Enters America, the author shares a list of literary works that have inspired her

Writer and academic Helen Charman’s debut non-fiction book tracks the cultural fixation of mothering in art and literature

Highlights also include Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s debut novel and Peggy Gou's first album 

Ahead of the release of their new publication, ‘Poor Artists’, Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad share a list of the things that have inspired them

From a new collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates to The White Pube’s literary debut, frieze editors choose the best books to sink your teeth into this season

The Nobel Prize-winning writer and the journalist chronicle their affair through shared photography. We revisit their story ahead of its reissue

Other picks include Dionne Brand’s latest non-fiction exploration of intergenerational memory and the long-running London Review Bookshop podcast

The author's metafictional exploration of the romance genre is a satisfying act of sublimation for both narrator and reader

The author’s latest book, documenting an attempt to revive an abandoned cinema in Hungary, teases out the magic charm of film

Other highlights include Beach Sessions Dance Series in New York and Aruna D’Souza’s Imperfect Solidarities