Francesca Mollett | Modern Art, London | 5 June – 19 July ...

This week, six authors featured on the Waterstones podcast to discuss their debut novels.

Francesca Mollett, ‘Annual Honesty’, 2025, exhibition view. Courtesy: the artist and Modern Art, London Sous-bois ...

Mostly successful, “The Book of Records” is both a dystopian fantasy in the mode of Mohsin Hamid’s “Exit West” and an ode to a planet in crisis, riddles that mold our relationships. “We inherit ...

Madeleine Thien’s inventive and ambitious fourth novel, “The Book of Records,” opens with maximum intrigue. A seven-year-old Chinese girl named Lina disembarks from a sea vessel with her ...

The others are the Chinese Tang dynasty poet Du Fu and the 17th-century Portuguese-Dutch radical philosopher Baruch Spinoza.