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 ...

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

Novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi remembers only bits and pieces of the day ... He went on to more films and books, including the 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia. Kureishi started writing his ...

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.

“There are many writers in my family,” says Kureishi, “mostly journalists. My dad wanted to be a novelist and he wrote these books which were more like memoirs than novels.” None of his ...

I thought there’d be rallies, secret handshakes and bonfires of my friend’s books; even my own ... beige uniforms and hate-filled squares. Hanif Kureishi is a novelist, playwright and ...

Novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi remembers only bits and pieces ... He went on to more films and books, including the 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia. Kureishi started writing his ...