Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

David Szalay’s “Flesh” is “almost certainly the most monosyllabic Booker prizewinner ever”, said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Times. The brooding protagonist, István, largely speaks in “gruff, gruntish ...

David Szalay’s Flesh, which won the Booker Prize 2025 on Monday, was the first of the six titles I had picked up from the shortlist to read this year. It immediately drew me in—not because it has a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Nearly a decade after his 2016 novel, “All That Man Is,” was passed over for the Booker Prize, David Szalay has ...

The protagonist’s inner life is hidden from the reader in this highly original novel David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh Reflecting on the Booker judging process, chair Roddy Doyle ...

The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book “singular” and “extraordinary.” By Alex Marshall Reporting from ...

Readers of David Szalay’s “Flesh,” shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, should not be fooled by its simple prose — it is a complex, frustrating and gripping story of exploitation, masculinity, class ...

Spanish Fort, Ala. — After boating with her friends on Labor Day along Alabama's Gulf coast, Summerlin Skipworth's life changed dramatically. The 30-year-old single mom slipped and cut her feet near a ...

Vibrio vulnificus continues to sicken people in Louisiana as the state urges residents to take precautions Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Another person is hospitalized in Bay County because of a "flesh-eating" bacteria. This brings the number of cases of those infected this year up to three in Bay County, with two deaths. Statewide, ...

The first human case in the U.S. of a flesh-eating parasite was reported in Maryland.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said a case of the flesh-eating New World screwworm parasite has ...