The sun is finally here and it’s time to head to city’s top terraces. The ES Writers name their favourite al fresco go-tos

Fancy-dress parties may be back this year but nothing beats scaring yourself silly on the sofa with some popcorn. Our writers pick the films that still make them shudder now

Continuing our regular series highlighting the books that Londoners are loving right now

Maggie Shipstead tells Katie Law about how travel inspired her third novel Great Circle, which tells the story of a fearless female aviator and a Hollywood rebel who later portrays her on screen

Today the Evening Standard in association with Netflix launches its first Stories Festival. Will Young, a speaker and a judge of our What’s Your Story? writing competition, tells Katie Law  about why it’s so vital to help young people find their voice

Here’s how the Evening Standard team plan on kicking off a summer of fun...

After ten years of living with undiagnosed social anxiety, the author suffered a sudden, catastrophic breakdown during a routine office interview. She thought she was having a heart attack. She tells Katie Law about the root causes and triggers for her panic attacks, and how she has learned to tame them

Sales of fiction soared during the pandemic as we sought refuge from our own surreal reality. Evening Standard writers on the stories they couldn’t get enough of...

Hailed as an erotic masterpiece when it was first published in the 1970s, this Canadian feminist tale, published in the UK for the first time, about a woman having sex with a bear in the wilds of northern Ontario, is a completely nutty but oddly beguiling fantasy, says Katie Law

Lobotomies, electroshock therapy and crippling medication are just some of the treatments that have been used to treat depression in the past. Science writer and sufferer, Alex Riley decided to write a book about the history and treatment of depression, partly to help heal himself, he tells Katie Law

He became the most sought-after author overnight, but being stuck indoors in lockdown meant everything was virtual. Douglas Stuart tells Katie Law about his next novel, turning Shuggie Bain into a TV series and why his story has universal appeal

After far too long locked up, the Standard’s writers are practically drooling at the thought of getting back out on the town

Already a bestseller in Italy and currently being made into a Netflix series, this novel about love, fidelity and the cost of betrayal is an absolute scorcher, says Katie Law

Katie Law talks to the author about how her novel You Should Have Known became The Undoing for HBO, why erasing the Jewish elements from the original story didn’t matter, meeting Nicole Kidman on set and touching that coat

It’s World Sleep Day today and as lockdown lack of sleep continues to be one of the nation’s biggest battles, neuroscientist and author of Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker shares his top tips with Katie Law for how to get a better night’s kip

After her tweets about Islam were deemed offensive, publishers Hachette cancelled Julie Burchill’s book. Now an Edinburgh-based indie publisher is bringing it out instead, and Burchill has issued a full apology

Books pulled last minute and staff threatening to strike because they disagree with JK Rowling - Katie Law reports on how publishing went woke

The absorbing novel that David E Kelley adapted and turned into the bestselling HBO miniseries, The Undoing starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant

The author of the brilliant autobiographical Melrose sequence returns with an ambitious novel of ideas about genetic heritability, climate change and the role of technology in neuroscience, but does he pull it off, asks Katie Law

Two years ago the acclaimed travel writer suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown. He tells Katie Law about his delusional fantasies, being sectioned under the Mental Health Act and how he took the first steps to recovery