In September, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Hypocrite,” by Jo Hamya. Welcome to the Book Review Book Club Learn More About the Book Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘The Hypocrite’ ...

Jo Hamya discusses her debut novel, Three Rooms, the story of a young woman navigating housing, privilege and early adulthood in England amid news of Brexit and a surge of nationalism. The unnamed ...

Jo Hamya’s impressive novel “The Hypocrite” opens with an ambush. A famous and now elderly British novelist is attending the matinee performance of a play written by his daughter Sophia. In his heyday ...

Jo Hamya’s “The Hypocrite” toggles primarily between the perspectives of Sophia, a 28-year-old playwright in London, and her father, a famous writer who is referred to, pointedly, only as “Sophia’s ...

A playwright turns the tables on her author father by making him the subject of her new play — a fact he doesn't discover until the curtains rise — in Jo Hamya's new novel, "The Hypocrite." ...

Anyone who has ever worried about how they will afford their rent or mortgage knows intimately the deep-seated fear of instability. People put up with small and large compromises just to have a roof ...

Carlin is a contributor for TIME. The plot of The Hypocrite sounds like the setup to a joke: a middle-aged novelist walks into a play about an out-of-touch writer only to discover the show is about ...

The Booker Prize Foundation has announced the launch of The Booker Prize Podcast on July 6. Hosted by literary critics Jo Hamya and James Walton, the weekly podcast will explore the history of the ...

The unnamed narrator of Jo Hamya's debut novel "Three Rooms" tells herself, you are brown and bourgeois, and the internet does not believe you exist. She wants her own place but can't afford it - ...