Hanif Kureishi does not pretend his new life is anything but often hellish and a profoundly unwelcome shock. But he has also ...

The British author reflects on a literary career that began with The Buddha of Suburbia, his smash-hit portrait of race, sex and class in 1970s London.

Novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi remembers only bits and pieces of the day in 2022 when his life changed forever. He recalls being sick with a stomach infection and starting to feel faint ...

Kureishi comes from a family of writers, or in some cases frustrated writers. His dad, a Pakistani bureaucrat, never realised his writing ambitions. “There are many writers in my family,” says ...

Hanif Kureishi was visiting Rome on Boxing Day in 2022 when he fainted and fell over. “I woke up a few minutes later in a pool of blood, my neck in a grotesquely twisted position,” he recalls.

In 1999, Kureishi set teacups rattling in England with Intimacy, a sexually explicit novella about an extramarital affair, with possible real-life parallels. Here he concocts an appealing ...

For a relatively short novel, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia is a big and unwieldy thing. The incendiary 1990 book teems with incident and ideas – an irreverent, orgiastic odyssey ...

Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. In it, he describes being completely dependent on others — and the... A fall 'Shattered' Hanif Kureishi's life.