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Sam Leith

Sam Leith is literary editor of the Spectator and author of Write to the Point: How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page      

October 2024

  • Richard Ayoade.

    The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade review – comic novel or conceptual art project?

  • Stephen Fry poses for photographers upon arrival at the National Portrait Gallery Re-Opening on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 in London. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

    Book of the day
    Odyssey by Stephen Fry review – a jaunty version of Homer

September 2024

  • Will Self author photo

    Elaine by Will Self review – an intense reimagining of the author’s mother’s life

    Elaine is a thwarted writer in 1950s upstate New York, on the brink of affairs and murdering her own child, in a claustrophobic novel full of Self’s stylistic mannerisms

August 2024

  • The 2009 film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are

    Can fairytales and fantasy compete with Fortnite? How to get kids reading at any age

  • Houses of Parliament

    Book of the day
    Failed State by Sam Freedman review – how to fix Britain

July 2024

  • Thom Gunn, 1970.

    Thom Gunn by Michael Nott review – sex, drugs and San Francisco

    A sensitive account of the poet’s wild life on the West Coast
  • China Miéville and Keanu Reeves.

    ‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix

    What happens when a Hollywood actor and SF author join forces on a novel? The pair talk about their literary bromance – and their quest to turn Reeves’s comic book series into something deeper
  • Benjamin Labatut (1)

    ‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut

    His page-turning books about quantum physics and game theory have given the Chilean writer a cult following – and won him famous fans from Stephen Fry to Björk and Barack Obama

May 2024

  • Detail from The Bachelor Party by Louis Wain.

    Catland by Kathryn Hughes review – paws for thought

    From pests to pampered pets … how Victorian artist Louis Wain ushered in the age of the cat

March 2024

  • A scene from Saltburn.

    The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet review – social-climbing satire

  • Economist and journalist Grace Blakeley.

    ‘I wanted to save the world!’: Grace Blakeley, TikTok’s answer to Tony Benn

March 2023

  • David Baddiel

    David Baddiel: ‘Football fills a God-shaped hole’

  • Margaret Atwood.

    Book of the day
    Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood review – tales of love and age

October 2022

  • Alan moore

    Watchmen author Alan Moore: ‘I’m definitely done with comics’

    As he releases his first short story collection, the revered writer talks about magic, the problem with superhero movies and why he will never write another graphic novel

September 2022

  • A style that’s almost indescribable … Javier Marías.

    Like a poet writing thrillers: why you should read Javier Marías

    The Spanish author’s death has robbed us of his unique, riddling investigations into reality

August 2022

  • Nick Drnaso

    Nick Drnaso: ‘Something about comics attracts people who have anxiety’

    The literary cartoonist talks about taking graphic novels mainstream, his feelings of imposter syndrome, and processing his darkest childhood memories in his latest book

January 2022

  • Gary Shteyngart in New York City.

    Book of the day
    Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart review – lockdown tragicomedy

    A group of friends hole up in the countryside to ride out New York’s pandemic in the ‘Dacha of Doom’

November 2021

  • Dave Eggers … If I used a smartphone ‘I would be watching baseball highlights all day’.

    ‘The Every is about an all-powerful monopoly that seeks to eliminate competition’: why Dave Eggers won’t sell his new hardback on US Amazon

    The author on returning to the dystopian world of big tech in his sequel to The Circle, and how he’s taking a stand against Bezos’s empire

September 2021

  • The Chicago suburbs where Charlie Barnes lives in his ‘scuffed and tired’ home.

    Book of the day
    A Calling for Charlie Barnes review – tragicomedy of the American Dream

    Joshua Ferris’s story of a fraud, fool and faithless husband narrated by his novelist son is funny, moving – and surprising

May 2021

  • A panel from Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith

    Barry Windsor-Smith is back: ‘Monsters has been a slow and difficult experience’

    After 35 years of work, the feted comic creator has published Monsters, a drama featuring Nazi science and psychic powers. He talks about Marvel and how his drawing style has evolved
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