The Latest Breaking News from Kurt Vonnegut

The US author’s debut collection from 1934 focuses on impoverished individuals in precarious times using language that is punchy and full of compassion

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, among books pulled

A fascinating exploration of how ice has shaped human existence

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

Cold Girl Summer of 2023 is coming to an end and we are left with nowhere to fart around, as Kurt Vonnegut would say

Kurt Vonnegut didn’t deliver the famous “Wear Sunscreen” graduation speech published in the Chicago Tribune that was often mistakenly attributed to the celebrated author. But he could have.

Whether it’s the latest instalment of the splattertastic franchise or the return of some electropop greats, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

Oe said interviewing Chairman Mao was “so boring”

Kurt Vonnegut, who would be 100 years old today, never liked the name Veterans Day. He preferred to call it Armistice Day, which marked the end of WWI, a day of peace when an armistice preceded a peace treaty…"a moment," Vonnegut wrote, "when armies stop killing each other."