Deputy Literary Editor and Fiction Editor of the Times and Sunday Times / laura.hackett@sundaytimes.co.uk
Joined November 2012
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Laura Hackett retweeted
A wonderful review of SISTERS IN YELLOW by @HackettLaura has just been published. I’m deeply moved by its thoughtful and attentive reading, and so happy to see Tommy Cat (ニャー兄) mentioned💫🥰
"─This is not the Japan you find in novels about cats, cafés and bookshops. Kawakami draws back this cosy façade to reveal the grimy reality underneath — and she does it with consummate style. With Sisters in Yellow, she proves she is still the most exciting Japanese novelist at work today."
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19 Jun 2025
‘A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations … I finished it tear-stained' @HackettLaura @thetimes
Read the full review of #DraytonandMackenzie by @StarrittAlex 🌊 shorturl.at/KAmZT
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Laura Hackett retweeted
10 Apr 2025
Feel very honoured to be a judge -- and in such classy company
10 Apr 2025
Meet the #BGPrize2025 judges - chaired by @thetimes / ST lit ed @RobbieTimes, they are: @UniofOxford lecturer @pratinavanil; biographer and previous winner of the prize @LucyHH; journalist and broadcaster @InayaFolarin; @TheEconomist's Rachel Lloyd; and author @PParkerWriting: thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk… #nonfiction
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12 Feb 2025
I reviewed Eimear McBride’s new novel - a moving follow-up to The Lesser Bohemians with plenty of nods to Joyce thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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31 Jan 2025
Delighted that our illustrator has given me this chic dress - here’s our new fortnightly glimpse into the private reading lives of the Times books team… thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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23 Jan 2025
So sad to hear about the death of the great poet, Michael Longley. Years ago, I wrote a piece about him for a student magazine - he sent me this beautiful Christmas card with a poem inside
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Laura Hackett retweeted
22 Jan 2025
Romantasy is hotter than dragon's breath at the moment. . . and here's @HackettLaura's review of Rebecca Yarros' Onyx Storm. Enjoy thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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22 Jan 2025
Sat up half the night reading the new Rebecca Yarros book Onyx Storm - here’s my take on the romantasy phenomenon and the novel you’re about to see everywhere thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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Laura Hackett retweeted
3 Jan 2025
David Lodge died this week aged 89. But his great novels live on. @john_self has written a terrific tribute and guide to five of his best novels thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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28 Oct 2024
Hello publishers 🙋🏻♀️
We’re putting together our end-of-year “literary non-fiction” list, the category for book lovers. What author memoirs, literary biographies or literary studies have you published this year that we should be thinking about? Thank you!
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10 Oct 2024
Is Sigmund Freud a relic of the past or a vital part of contemporary culture? I spoke to @Mark_Solms - who has spent 30 years revising and translating the complete works of Freud thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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10 Oct 2024
And I’ll be speaking to Mark and a whole host of Freud experts tomorrow at the Cheltenham Literature Festival - tickets still available! cheltenhamfestivals.org/even…
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Laura Hackett retweeted
6 Oct 2024
I reviewed Jon Sopel’s dismal new book about “Britishness” for @thetimes thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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24 Sep 2024
come for Yoda, stay for the literary criticism
24 Sep 2024
Intermezzo is finally out and so is The Story @thetimes podcast on why Sally Rooney became the great chronicler of awkward millennials with @HackettLaura and @LukeJones 📚
Ft. heartbreak, the perfect linen dress and Yoda.
🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/26c5e2
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Laura Hackett retweeted
24 Sep 2024
Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo is out now! 📚 What did The Times and The Sunday Times' Deputy Literary Editor think? Listen to the full review now on The Story ⬇️
🎙️The Story podcast
🗣️@LukeJones | @HackettLaura open.spotify.com/episode/6Yd…
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Laura Hackett retweeted
24 Sep 2024
Intermezzo is finally out and so is The Story @thetimes podcast on why Sally Rooney became the great chronicler of awkward millennials with @HackettLaura and @LukeJones 📚
Ft. heartbreak, the perfect linen dress and Yoda.
🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/26c5e2
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20 Sep 2024
I wrote about the sexual politics of Sally Rooney - why her female characters, in normal life so spiky, become submissive in the bedroom - and whether that matters thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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Laura Hackett retweeted
19 Sep 2024
I reviewed Sally Rooney's new book Intermezzo. I think she has immense novelistic talents but I found the new book moralising and pretentious in ways that not easy to ignore.
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