Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Lionel Shriver: 'I would scrap all hate speech legislation' - Carlotta Cardana "You cannot survive as a civilisation in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American novelist Lionel Shriver, photographed for The Telegraph at her home near Lisbon, Portugal, last month - Clara Molden "She ...

The latest novel by Lionel Shriver, literary darling turned literary-world scourge, doesn’t come out until mid-February, and it’s already polarizing. “Her worst book, by a wide margin,” according to ...

The provocative author of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ turns her satirical eye to the ‘subjectivity’ of facts in the current moment The novelist Lionel Shriver has a passion for pariahs. Think Eva ...

Beware the Ides of March, a soothsayer told Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play. But book lovers needn’t fear the month: the publishing industry is back in full swing and here is just a selection of ...

Some writers tell you what to feel. Others make you sit with what you would rather avoid. Lionel Shriver belongs firmly in the second category. Her work does not comfort or reassure. It unsettles. It ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Novelists, including great ones, can be a cranky bunch. The crankiest one I’ve had the ...

Lionel Shriver's new novel, a black comedy called So Much for That, examines the financial and emotional wear that chronic illness can place on a family. With health care reform dominating the news, ...

As usual, Lionel Shriver sets out to puncture pieties, but “A Better Life” feels full of easy targets. By Alexandra Jacobs In Lionel Shriver’s new novel, judging intelligence and competence is a form ...