Is literary fiction dying? Charlie Hill charges up the defibrillator with a proposal for a 'Literary Fiction Manifesto'...

Why don't writers write novels that involve technology? Well, they do – just not often. Prescient themes of privacy, artificial intelligence, alternate reality, identity and gaming all come together in Mez Packer's new literary novel The Game is Altered – a super-contemporary piece of techno-fiction that asks the question: where do the boundaries of reality now lie? The author writes about the problem of reconciling technology and literary fiction...

On the centenary of Scott's expedition to the South Pole, Jean McNeil chronicles her own voyage to Antarctica.

'Each day we see more and more ice. As we sail into a shifting matrix of sea-ice everything is in motion.  Icebergs assail each other, they grind and groan. The sea is soupy with ice. The air stings'...

The high-brows and low-brows unite at last against a new threat—the wild, untamed indie-brow.

Toby Litt proposes some theories to explain the subversive undertones of J.G. Ballard's writing - subterranean tunnelling or something more sinister...

Julia Bell discusses the role of truth in fiction as part of the Birkbeck BA Creative Writing 'Life of a Writer Series'.

SJ Ahmed met with novelist Joanna Briscoe and discussed the moors and the similarly 'tough and unpredictable terrain' of novel writing.

Kavita Bhanot introduces 'Too Asian, Not Asian Enough': An Anthology of New British Asian Fiction.