Rebecca Liu
Rebecca Liu is a writer, critic, and editor at the Guardian Saturday magazine. Liu’s essays and criticism about books and arts have been published in the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Nation, White Review. She has interviewed writers including Bernardine Evaristo, Xiaolu Guo, Kiley Reid, and Jacqueline Rose, and artists including Park Chan-wook, Carly Rae Jepsen, Darren Star, and Sandra Oh. She chairs literary events, often for the UK’s East and Southeast Asian Literary Festival, and has discussed books and arts on BBC radio programmes.
Interviews with Rebecca Liu
The Best Novels of 2026: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Rebecca Liu
Each year, judges for the Booker Prize whittle their longlist down to a five- or six-book shortlist for the title of the best new novel of the previous twelve months. This year, the finalists include two previous Booker winners– Douglas Stuart and Marlon James – and a previous shortlistee in Elizabeth Strout. We asked Rebecca Liu, 2026 judge and Guardian journalist, to talk us through the shortlisted novels.
