Hari Kunzru

 I read the same stuff on holiday as I do at any other time, but when the people from the Observer emailed they kept emphasizing that choices for their Summer reading section should be SUMMERY and LIGHT, as if the world would fall apart if anyone attempted to tax themselves on the beach, which made me want to recommend Anatomy of Melancholy or something.

 Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières and Rizzoli have published an anthology called Writing on the Edge: Great Contemporary Writers On The Frontline of Crisis, "a collection of 14 first-hand accounts of life inside conflict zones where the international medical

 The Guardian has published a series of reflections by novelists on the New Labour era. Will Self, Sue Townsend, Peter Akinti, Andrew O'Hagan, Philip Pullman, Jonathan Coe, Helen Walsh and me. I'll post the full text of my contribution (it was slightly edited by the Guardian) soon.