Bowie: The Final Act - fond requiem from fan 10 years after star’s death
Jonathan Stiasny’s film offers overview of iconic singer’s career with emphasis on his final artistic statement, Blackstar
Hanif Kureishi
Sister Midnight director Karan Kandhari: ‘I don’t know how, but we snuck this film through the British system’
An extravagantly original fable about marriage, bad housekeeping and some kind of vampirism
Shattered by Hanif Kureishi: Darkly funny insights into the indignities and anguish caused by sudden incapacitation
Along the way, the author, who became paralysed after a fall in late 2022, laments the ‘North Korea of the mind’ he believes young writers impose upon themselves
In My Own Words: Hanif Kureishi review – Author revisits hedonistic life after entering a zone of death
Television: The author and playwright, who suffered life-changing injuries after a fall in 2022, revisits his life and career
Roland Gift: ‘Everyone on our street was black or brown or Irish. To me that was normal’
The Fine Young Cannibal on being Hull’s ‘first black punk’ and his creative renaissance
‘I don’t like to drink water unless it’s got alcohol in it’
My Daily Diet: Hanif Kureishi, the British playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist on coffee, vodka and Italian food
Review: Love + Hate: Stories and Essays by Hanif Kureishi
A collection of stories and essays that explore complex relationship between love and hate
Michel Faber: ‘For a long time now, I’ve despised literature for its impotence to change the world for the better’
Michel Faber’s latest book was written while caring for his wife, Eva, who was dying of cancer. He calls it ‘the most deeply instinctive novel I ever wrote’
Joseph O’Connor shortlisted for comic novel of the year
Sebastian Faulks, Hanif Kureishi and Helen Fielding are rivals for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
Hanif Kureishi: ‘I’d like to be more difficult’
Writing courses are a waste of time, writers need to be more economical, and disturbing books are a triumph – the British author is in typically combative form
Le Week-End
This provocative but smug dramedy – about a couple on a dirty old weekend – is not your mum’s usual geezer pleaser
In the name of the father
Memoir/My Ear at His Heart: Reading my Father by Hanif Kureishi: Around the time of India's partition, Shannoo Kureishi came…
Dreaming and scheming
Hanif Kureishi's reputation precedes him. And it is bad news. He kissed and he told
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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