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Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Lyse Doucet: ‘Every day, Afghan women tell me they’re living in a prison’
Fri 12 Jun 2026
Amelia Tait
Why creative writing is crucial
Fri 12 Jun 2026
Tim Adams
Frank Cottrell-Boyce: ‘We’ve treated a generation of children now at school with carelessness’
Fri 12 Jun 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
Fri 12 Jun 2026
Lewis Huxley
Children’s books of the month: creature comforts
Thu 11 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from Anthony Blunt to Ocean Vuong
Thu 11 Jun 2026
Seun Matiluko
Reclaiming the story of Africa
Wed 10 Jun 2026
Hayley Myers
‘It’s essential to be surrounded by silence sometimes’: Erdem Moralıoğlu
Tue 9 Jun 2026
William Boyd
Anthony Blunt, the spy who outwitted them all
Tue 9 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Ocean Vuong: ‘Service industry work is like a sonnet to me’
Tue 9 Jun 2026
Alma Haser
Matt Haig: ‘I like that Germany still has proper Sundays’
Mon 8 Jun 2026
Donna Ferguson
EM Forster’s stolen nameplate comes home to King’s after 55 years
Sun 7 Jun 2026
Claudine Toutoungi
The Sunday Poem: Mid-Flight Checks
Sun 7 Jun 2026
Kate Lister
What to read to understand female sexuality
Sun 7 Jun 2026
Andrea Wulf
George Forster, humanity’s forgotten hero
Sun 7 Jun 2026
Killian Fox
Graphic novel of the month: Dogs on Dates by Luke Healy
Sat 6 Jun 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Olivia Laing: ‘The shame of loneliness is agonising’
Sat 6 Jun 2026
Xavier Greenwood
‘An entry in my father’s diary reads – I hate my son’: Neil Griffiths on family, fear and failure
Fri 5 Jun 2026
Rowan Williams
William Tyndale, the radical who rewrote the Bible
Fri 5 Jun 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Dooneen by Keith Ridgway
Fri 5 Jun 2026
Melissa Denes
The Danish butterfly-spotter tracking down a natural high
Fri 5 Jun 2026
Tim Adams
Sathnam Sanghera: ‘I didn’t know any other George Michael fans. I think it was a weird form of rebellion’
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Jessy Parker Humphreys
Football’s multibillion-pound gambling habit
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Sufiyaan Salam’s raucous night out
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from betting on football to tackling the climate crisis
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Andrew Anthony
Turi King: ‘The Knox case shows there was a misunderstanding about what DNA can tell you’
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Jeevan Vasagar
Can Britain adapt to the age of extreme weather?
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Erica Wagner
Ann Patchett’s book of transgressions
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Ten books to pack for your holidays
Mon 1 Jun 2026
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith: ‘Friendship lies at the heart of almost all my books’
Mon 1 Jun 2026
Marine Saint
Playlists just got a whole lot more sexy with rise of ‘Spotify for porn’
Mon 1 Jun 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry books of the month: the republic of parenthood
Fri 29 May 2026
Hayley Myers
‘I always have time to read’: Pandora Sykes on bonkbusters, childhood and dodging Pilates
Thu 28 May 2026
Colin Grant
Jarred McGinnis’s memoir of love and fate
Thu 28 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from Richard Dawkins to Tahmima Anam
Thu 28 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Tahmima Anam: ‘I wrote, vomited and thought: Am I a psychopath?’
Thu 28 May 2026
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins on AI, evolution and alien life
Wed 27 May 2026
Stephanie Merritt
Erica Wagner’s Wash is historical fiction at its most alive
Wed 27 May 2026
Isabel Waidner
Isabel Waidner: ‘Hours of my life are lost to writing’
Mon 25 May 2026
‘My writing process is unusual,’ says prize-winning author accused of being AI
Sun 24 May 2026
Alex O’Connell
Maggie O’Farrell: ‘You don’t choose to be a writer for an easy path’
Sun 24 May 2026
Maya C Popa
The Sunday Poem: Happenstance
Sun 24 May 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Who’ll do it? Actors line up for the title role as BBC reboots Poirot
Sun 24 May 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Hannah Murray’s descent into magic and madness
Sat 23 May 2026
Daniel Dylan Wray
What to read to understand music scenes
Sat 23 May 2026
Hayley Myers
‘It’s important for me to be somewhere with soul’: Naomi Ishiguro
Sat 23 May 2026
Isabel Coles
Sally Rooney in Jerusalem? Meet the BDS-compliant publishers making it happen
Fri 22 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week: from the International Booker winner to Agnes Owens
Thu 21 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King on queerness and Taiwan’s future
Thu 21 May 2026
Xavier Greenwood
The storm over a literary prize winner shows how hard it is prove AI use
Thu 21 May 2026
John Self
The working-class genius of Agnes Owens
Thu 21 May 2026
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Rowan Williams makes the case for solidarity
Thu 21 May 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder
Thu 21 May 2026
The scammers using AI and flattery to target authors like me
Wed 20 May 2026
Orlando Whitfield
Adam Ross’s Playworld is a rightful heir to Catcher in the Rye
Wed 20 May 2026
Fiona Noble
Young adult books of the month: chaos and the cure
Mon 18 May 2026
Ana Kinsella
What to read to understand artistic partnerships
Mon 18 May 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Director by Daniel Kehlmann
Mon 18 May 2026
Truth, lies and the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge
Sun 17 May 2026
The Sunday poem: Lemons by Patrick Daly
Sun 17 May 2026
K Biswas
The Enlightenment’s invention of racism
Sun 17 May 2026
Basia Cummings
Patrick Radden Keefe: ‘Fakery is now the coin of the realm. Underlying it is a sense that we’re all hustlers’
Sat 16 May 2026
Ciarán O’Rourke
Supernatural Elvis: Observer/Burgess prize 2026 winner
Thu 14 May 2026
Kathleen Jamie
The fight to save our wild places
Thu 14 May 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Prestige Drama is a bitterly funny take on TV’s obsession with the Troubles
Thu 14 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from wild places to Troubles tourism
Thu 14 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Yassmin Abdel-Magied: ‘I’m nostalgic for life on the oil rig’
Wed 13 May 2026
The women who brought the Nazis to justice
Wed 13 May 2026
Megan Nolan
Blake Morrison’s guide to life-writing
Tue 12 May 2026
Anna Leszkiewicz
Liz Allan’s 1990s-set novel smells like teen spirit
Sun 10 May 2026
Anna Woodford
The Sunday Poem: Victorian Honeymoon
Sun 10 May 2026
Matt Cain
Bigots hounded me out of Bolton as a young man. I won’t let it happen again
Sun 10 May 2026
Michael Frayn’s wonderful Copenhagen still crackles with radioactive relevance
Sun 10 May 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Sat 9 May 2026
Killian Fox
Graphic novel of the month: Opioids and Organs by Arizona O’Neill
Sat 9 May 2026
Robert Macfarlane
What to read to understand birds
Sat 9 May 2026
Anthony Cummins
Ben Lerner’s anxious generations
Fri 8 May 2026
Nicola Sturgeon
Douglas Stuart’s island of lost souls
Thu 7 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from life with Paul Auster to the return of Douglas Stuart
Thu 7 May 2026
Stephanie Merritt
Melissa Harrison: ‘We have oversimplified the power of nature’
Thu 7 May 2026
Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster and a love that wasn’t enough
Thu 7 May 2026
Andrew Anthony
How the assisted dying debate became a tribal war
Tue 5 May 2026
Jeet Thayil
The Sunday Poem: A New Vernacular
Sun 3 May 2026
Colin Kidd
How the General Strike changed Britain
Sat 2 May 2026
Stephen Armstrong
Alan Moore: ‘The comics industry is poisonous’
Fri 1 May 2026
Tim Adams
JG Ballard’s lessons in life and death
Fri 1 May 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Shamanism by Manvir Singh
Fri 1 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from Tana French to the joy of swimming
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Lauren Elkin
Why I wanted to sing like Cyndi
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Nell Frizzell
What to read to understand swimming
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Olivia Laing
The chaos and passion of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry books of the month: Melete and Yiewsley
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Lily Isaacs
Nelio Biedermann explains how he became a bestselling novelist at 22
Wed 29 Apr 2026
AI shortcuts aren’t all they’re cracked up to be
Wed 29 Apr 2026
Killian Fox
David Keenan: ‘I want my books to be horny’
Wed 29 Apr 2026
Stephanie Merritt
To understand modern Ireland, read Tana French
Wed 29 Apr 2026
William Boyd
William Boyd: ‘April is the cruellest month (and hayfever doesn’t help)’
Mon 27 Apr 2026
Kim Moore
The Sunday Poem: Many Answers to the Same Question
Sun 26 Apr 2026
Lucie McKnight Hardy
What to read to understand toxic female friendships
Sun 26 Apr 2026
