The best-written recent literary fiction

'Some people may be too sane to be good writers.'

'I look forward to their lazy, ride-hitching arses returning to the pits of intellectual and linguistic mediocrity from whence they came'

The best-written recent literary fiction; and Jonathan Meades on prose style: 'Writing which dares not appropriate is pathetic'

The best-written recent literary fiction and nonfiction; and A.L. Kennedy's no-nonsense take on prose style

‘It's headbutting time forever’: A.L. Kennedy holds nothing back on prose style

The Republic of Consciousness Prize for innovative fiction; and the best-written recent releases in speculative fiction and nonfiction

The best-written US memoir of the year: our pick from the National Book Critics Circle Award shortlist: Part 2

Kia Corthron: playwright, writer on The Wire, and one of the best US debut novelists of the century

'If a sentence takes an hour or a day or a week to find the form for, that’s fine': Han Smith on prose style

Are prose snobs just plain old snobs?: Nina Schuyler answers our new questions on prose style

'The self-loathing cuts a bit deeper than that': Sam Kahn on substance over style