Books

His work throngs with clamorous alter egos

Liao Yiwu was brutally imprisoned for his poem about Tiananmen Square. Simon Willis reads his memoir

The pitch-perfect chronicler of a world that never existed

We meet America’s leading graphic novelist at home in Chicago

A Canadian novelist with a “prodigious output”

Simon Willis finds his way through a Norwegian novel of enthralling candour

If you're not yet one of his 1.85m followers

Whatever happened to French children’s books? Malika Browne looks into a puzzling decline – but finds some hope

Hassan Blasim’s new collection of stories, “The Iraqi Christ” mixes lyricism and mordancy

The office competes with the “Pride and Prejudice” board game