Sixteen books that helped put 2025 in perspective
What our literary output offers is not a vision of perfectibility but an attempt to reckon with our world in all its contradiction, ambiguity, and fractiousness.
David Szalay wins the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh
In its elliptical prose style and Eastern European sensibility, Szalay's novel reads like a cross between Ernest Hemingway and Milan Kundera.
Canadian novelist David Szalay joins Kiran Desai and Andrew Miller on the shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize
Also shortlisted this year is Kiran Desai for The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia.