Areen Ali

So recommended. This novel This is Where the Serpent Lives is brilliant…. Its v original but it also does resemble a sort of Pakistani Chekhov I m still in the middle. But its a pleasure to read.

I had a very thought-provoking time interviewing Amia Srinivasan, who is fast becoming our pre-eminent public philosopher, on the @NewStatesman's longform interviews podcast, The Exchange. Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/013vvk… Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ami…

The superpower has lost control of its foreign policy, writes Badr Albusaidi, Oman’s chief diplomat economist.com/by-invitation/…

So excited to be publishing this brilliant book and author 👑

Rise above.

Coming this May—SHIFT by Cho Yeeun, trans. Yewon Jung. Speculative/weird/detective fiction from the author of THE NEW SEOUL PARK JELLY MASSACRE. Pre-order now at honfordstar.com, and save up to 40% if you buy as part of the 2026 bundle (available until 14th Feb!)

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I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It was deep, painful, and at times unbearable. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Read in @NYMag nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Ever since I read Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders—a book I fell for sentence by perfect sentence—I’ve been waiting for the novel only he could write. So excited to publish this, wrapped in a Salman Toor painting that's about to stop you in your tracks.

For @ELLEmagazine's Hollywood issue I wrote about why celebrity ghostwriters are coming out of the shadows as the value of literary prestige changes the equation for high-profile authors. elle.com/culture/books/…

You wait years for a book about folk rituals and repressive authority written by someone called Olga and then two come along at once! Tbh it had me at “dramatisation of a witch trial narrated by a wax effigy”. Ravn is always great and this is wonderful translated by Martin Aitken

This is worth reading if you have 5 mins. Mircea Cartarescu on his writing and literary inspirations theguardian.com/books/2025/nov…

same place six months apart

@Danaiwrites @MichaelJBooks Gorgeous!! 😍

It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by @MichaelJBooks 🖤

book haul <3 this one is for @sleepydahlias

‘Everyone agrees that things have gone too far, but no one knows how to turn back’

There is still time to get your ticket! Join us and @newwritingsouth this Saturday to hear all about the book publishing world from agents, editors and the Headline team. See you there? brnw.ch/21wXncZ #DemystifyPublishing

quitting my job to focus on walking

every day is all there is