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  • Margaret Atwood photographed at Victoria College, Toronto University.

    Margaret Atwood
    ‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

    Democracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary author
  • Cover of James Joyce's case file.

    Feature
    From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

  • Hamnoy fishing village on Lofoten Islands at dawn. Norway with red rorbu houses in winter. A fishing boats at dawn in the fjord. Red boat in the sunlight. Reine district

    Translated fiction roundup
    The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

    John Self
  • Tessa Hadley photographed at her home in Cardiff, Wales

    The books of my life
    Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’

  • Dartmoor, a destination in Bog People.

    Book of the day
    Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting

    Catriona Ward
  • Sally Rooney

    News
    Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned

  • Adam Kay.

    Audiobook of the week
    A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay audiobook review – a wayward doctor turns detective

    Fiona Sturges

What to read

  1. Composite image for Best Paperbacks September 2025

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Jonathan Coe, Tessa Hadley and more

  2. Claire-Louise Bennett, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Salman Rushdie, Patricia Lockwood and RF Kuang

    Autumn reads
    From a new Thomas Pynchon novel to a memoir by Margaret Atwood: the biggest books of the autumn

  3. Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli, The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei and The Ascent of Rum Doodle

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Non-fiction reviews

  • Joe Sacco.

    Journalism books
    The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco review – a masterclass in visual reportage

    Adam Rutherford
  • Terry Jones at a Monty Python script conference in 1974.

    Biography
    Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross review – portrait of a Python

    Steven Poole
  • John Updike in 1962.

    Non-fiction
    John Updike: A Life in Letters review – the man incapable of writing a bad sentence

    John Banville
  • Michael J Fox, right, with Christopher Lloyd in 1985’s Back to the Future.

    Autobiography and memoir
    Future Boy by Michael J Fox review – secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie

    Ellen E Jones

Fiction & poetry reviews

  1. Viola van de Sandt

    Fiction
    The Dinner Party by Viola van de Sandt review – a formidable debut

    Ruth Gilligan
  2. Olga Ravn.

    Fiction
    The Wax Child by Olga Ravn review – a visceral tale of witchcraft

    Aida Edemariam
  3. Anonymous, Lute-player, thought to be Thomas Campion

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Now winter nights … by Thomas Campion

    Carol Rumens
  4. Derek Owusu.

    Fiction
    Borderline Fiction by Derek Owusu review – life with borderline personality disorder

    Yagnishsing Dawoor

Children's and YA books

  1. The Ocean at Night by Isabelle Simler

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  2. Bear’s Nap by Emily Gravett

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  3. illustration of

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  4. A detail from put Your Shoes On by Polly Dunbar.

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams

Interviews

  1. Booker Prize winning British Hungarian novelist David Szalay.

    Interview
    David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize-winner

    Lisa Allardice
  2. a person with glasses smiling

    Interview
    Arabelle Sicardi on the ugliness behind the $450bn beauty industry

    Estelle Tang
  3. Taylor Swift performs onstage during The Eras Tour.

    Interview
    Author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation

    Arifa Akbar

Regulars

  • Tessa Hadley photographed at her home in Cardiff, Wales

    The books of my life
    Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’

  • Has the US economy colonised Britain

    Big idea
    Has Britain become an economic colony?

  • Adam Kay.

    Audiobook of the week
    A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay audiobook review – a wayward doctor turns detective

  • The Supermoon rises over houses in Olvera, Spain

    Poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Missing You by Miles Burrows

You may have missed

  1. Hans Asperger in 1966.

    Feature
    His research on autism was compassionate – how could Hans Asperger have collaborated with the Nazis?

    Alice Jolly
  2. Person with umbrella facing deluge of phone information

    Feature
    Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis

    Naomi Alderman
  3. pigeons

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on missing out on the Booker prize – cartoon

    Tom Gauld

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