Anita Brookner
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Sister act: female friendship in fiction from Woolf to Ferrante and Zadie SmithForget wives and mothers, the heroines of new books by Deborah Levy, Emma Cline and Zadie Smith are defined by the other women in their lives
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Anita Brookner’s rare and welcome take on old ageAnita Brookner’s portrayal of a lonely 73-year-old in The Next Big Thing is unusual in being serious and largely sympathetic
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Anita Brookner’s wry, elegant world of disappointed womenIn this age of crass self-promotion, the late Booker-winner’s ability to capture life’s quiet battles makes her required reading
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The five best Anita Brookner novelsLadylike, lavender-scented and precious … this writing is everything opposite to that
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Julian Barnes remembers his friend Anita Brookner: ‘There was no one remotely like her’Anita Brookner was too easily mistaken for her unhappy spinster heroines, but the Booker winner was a novelist of peerless wit and insight, and one of the most distinguished art historians of recent times
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Society celebrates marriage and families, but staying unattached can be the braver choiceAnita Brookner’s subversive message – the courage of the single life deserves respect
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On the shelf: Bridget Jones and other literary singletons
Bridget Jones is back – as a widow. Why in fiction is it still a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman must be in want of a husband, asks Rachel Cooke
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Ten of the worst publishing moments
John Dugdale: A televised scuffle on the Brighton seafront made a laughing-stock of editor Iain Dale this week - but that's nothing compared with the humiliation of the publishers who turned down Harry Potter
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Face to face with writers – in pictures
When Zsuzsi Roboz began a series of writers' portraits, she found herself embarking on a series of duels, with observers finding themselves observed. She tells how authors such as Anita Brookner, Will Self and Seamus Heaney returned her scrutiny
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The 10 worst fictional holidays - in pictures
Creepy strangers, decadent families and beaucoup other bad shit… we revisit 10 traumatic getaways
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Is Howard Jacobson the only person writing British Jewish novels?
The Finkler Question's author is far from the only Jewish novelist in this country – so where did all the other stories about Jewishness go?
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Booker club: Hotel du Lac
Sam Jordison: Anita Brookner's unspectacular novel drew a lot of flak after it beat a better book. But you can't really blame the – perfectly good – book for that
2016 – a year of celebrating women writers