Gurnaik Johal talks with author and translator, Saskia Vogel, about ‘Permission’, her debut novel about LA’s BDSM community

Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s debut novel ‘Bangkok Wakes To Rain’ masterfully follows the connected lives of a wide range of characters in the city of Bangkok

Andrea Levy, author of critically acclaimed novels like ‘Small Island’ and ‘The Long Song’ has died at the age of 62

One of Argentina’s most prominent writers, Samanta Schweblin, reaches new levels of eeriness in her latest short story collection ‘Mouthful of Birds’

Gurnaik Johal reviews Hanif Abdurraqib’s ‘Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest’, his newest book of music criticism

American author Mary Oliver has passed away at the age of 83

Books Editor Gurnaik Johal interviews Laura Purcell and Stuart Turton before the first show of their joint UK book tour

Students in The University of Manchester’s English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing department have created a new academic journal, called Polyphony. Founded by third-year-student Hana Jafar with the aim to spread “creative, innovative, and high quality writing” by other undergraduate students, Polyphony will “provide […] readers with an accessible resource to enrich their experience […]

Books Editor, Gurnaik Johal, discusses the misogyny at the heart of the work of critically acclaimed writers like Hemingway, Nabokov and Naipaul.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction announces a diverse long list, featuring a wide-range of debut novelists.

Manchester-based publisher, Comma Press, launches a brand new podcast

A quick roundup of all book-related events coming up this term in and around Manchester

After a report stating that poetry sales are at a record high, Gurnaik Johal takes a look at repeated criticisms of modern poetry

John Wray’s Godsend works best on a big picture level, and because of that, doesn’t fall flat like most American fiction about the ‘War on Terror’

The Mancunion previews 2019’s most exciting literary releases

‘I Can Handle University’ is a pocket-sized self help guide designed to help new students

Books editor Gurnaik Johal reviews Sjón’s latest work, Codex 1962, a sprawling work that catalogues every person born in Iceland from 1962 who has died since

On the 27th October 2018, acclaimed poet and playwright Ntozake Shange died at the age of 70