Mark Haddon on the magic of audiobooks: ‘I haven’t read a book properly until I’ve had it read to me’
Forget the snobs who treat the written word as superior. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime author explains why he’s a huge fan
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Show time: the 2019 shortlist for museum of the year
From the V&A Dundee to the Pitt Rivers in Oxford, public figures including Kirsty Wark and Matthew Rhys champion their favourite museums
The best books on food of 2017
Tasty spices from India, long-forgotten recipes from France – and Turkish delight from Narnia. Bee Wilson takes comfort in cookbooks
Cher, Louis Theroux, Edna O’Brien: the new books announced at Frankfurt book fair
After an opening ceremony hosted by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, the annual publishing event got underway, with novels and starry memoirs snapped up for big sums. So what will we be reading in 2018?
Where are all the great books about women in sport?
Now that England’s women’s cricket team are world champions, it’s high time literature caught up
On the edge of madness: the terrors and genius of Alberto Giacometti
He drank with Sartre, mocked Picasso and took silent walks with Beckett – but his work was going nowhere until a vision on Boulevard Montparnasse left him trembling. Ahead of a major Tate show, we explore the obsessions of Giacometti