Disguised as a metropolitan friendship misadventure, Bonding is a horrifying meditation on the effects of digital information gathering and apps. Author Mariel Franklin reveals how her work in data informed an era-defining debut
Jul 24, 2025
William Rayfet Hunter’s sun-drenched debut follows a mixed-race musician who becomes obsessed with a fabulously wealthy family. We sat down with Hunter, who won the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize in 2022, to discuss his new book
May 19, 2025
The severance procedure isn’t real. But under late capitalism, which encourages us to repress pain for the sake of productivity, perhaps we’re all severed already
Mar 03, 2025
From Nicola Dinan’s highly anticipated second novel to a haunting debut from Krystelle Bamford, here are all the works of fiction you should read this coming year
Dec 31, 2024
From Lili Anolik’s forensic deep dive into the complicated alliance between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, to Sally Rooney’s heart-rending novel Intermezzo, here’s our definitive list of the best fiction and non-fiction books published this year
Dec 13, 2024
The overwhelming majority of couples now meet online – and yet dating apps are conspicuously absent from romance narratives in film, TV and literature
Nov 11, 2024
From André Aciman’s modern classic Call Me By Your Name to Alison Rumfitt’s grotesque body horror Brainwyrms, here are our top recommendations for books that capture the all-consuming headiness of desire and obsession
Sep 30, 2024
Hinge
The author talks about mismatched desires, the role of chance in dating, and other lessons from working with a real Hinge couple for the ‘No Ordinary Love’ anthology
Aug 27, 2024
Men often read non-fiction books in the name of self-improvement – but many are reluctant to pick up works of fiction
Jul 22, 2024
The up-and-coming author discusses his first book, Anyone’s Ghost, and shares his advice for aspiring writers
Jul 05, 2024
We talk to Ella Frears about Goodlord: An Email – her haunting and darkly hilarious debut novel about consent, passivity and the precarious state of being a tenant during the housing crisis (in the form of an email to an estate agent)
Jul 01, 2024
Cuckoo follows a group of queer teenagers as they try to survive the conversion camp from hell. We spoke with author Gretchen Felker-Martin about body horror, suburban fascism and the representation of fatness
Jun 20, 2024
Popular fiction books featuring female vigilantes who kill predatory men are trending right now – but are these kitschy revenge narratives all that radical?
Jun 07, 2024
We speak to author Phoebe Stuckes about her debut novel, a chilling revenge tale which centres around a survivor of sexual assault
Apr 12, 2024
Author Ryan O’Connor tells Dazed about the supernatural encounters, deserted high rise flats, and bizarre twists of fate that inspired his debut novel
Mar 29, 2022