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I wrote about the generation of young women who have grown up with Sally Rooney’s novels - and whether the novels have grown up too thetimes.com/magazines/styl…

I reviewed Sally Rooney's new book Intermezzo. I think she has immense novelistic talents but I found the new book moralising and pretentious in ways that not easy to ignore. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

I wrote about the sexual politics of Sally Rooney - why her female characters, in normal life so spiky, become submissive in the bedroom - and whether that matters thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo is out now! 📚 What did The Times and The Sunday Times' Deputy Literary Editor think? Listen to the full review now on The Story ⬇️ 🎙️The Story podcast 🗣️Luke Jones | Laura Hackett open.spotify.com/episode/6YdyeR…

Intermezzo is finally out and so is The Story The Times and The Sunday Times podcast on why Sally Rooney became the great chronicler of awkward millennials with Laura Hackett and Luke Jones 📚 Ft. heartbreak, the perfect linen dress and Yoda. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/26c5e2

come for Yoda, stay for the literary criticism

Hugo Rifkind Geoff Norcott Jess Phillips 📚 At 12pm in the Town Hall, The Times and Sunday Times literary editor Robbie Millen and deputy literary editor for The Sunday Times Laura Hackett discuss with chair Kate Mosse about the top 100 bestselling books across the past 50 years

I reviewed Jon Sopel’s dismal new book about “Britishness” for The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Hello publishers 🙋🏻‍♀️ We’re putting together our end-of-year “literary non-fiction” list, the category for book lovers. What author memoirs, literary biographies or literary studies have you published this year that we should be thinking about? Thank you!

woop woop! it’s books of the year thetimes.com/culture/books/…

David Lodge died this week aged 89. But his great novels live on. John Self is now on Bluesky has written a terrific tribute and guide to five of his best novels thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Romantasy is hotter than dragon's breath at the moment. . . and here's Laura Hackett's review of Rebecca Yarros' Onyx Storm. Enjoy thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Sat up half the night reading the new Rebecca Yarros book Onyx Storm - here’s my take on the romantasy phenomenon and the novel you’re about to see everywhere thetimes.com/culture/books/…

So sad to hear about the death of the great poet, Michael Longley. Years ago, I wrote a piece about him for a student magazine - he sent me this beautiful Christmas card with a poem inside

Delighted that our illustrator has given me this chic dress - here’s our new fortnightly glimpse into the private reading lives of the Times books team… thetimes.com/culture/books/…

I reviewed Eimear McBride’s new novel - a moving follow-up to The Lesser Bohemians with plenty of nods to Joyce thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Feel very honoured to be a judge -- and in such classy company

‘A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations … I finished it tear-stained' Laura Hackett The Times and The Sunday Times Read the full review of #DraytonandMackenzie by Alex Starritt 🌊 shorturl.at/KAmZT