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Kim Moore
The Sunday Poem:Â 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
Hayley Myers
Fatima Bhutto: ‘For me books are a necessity not a luxury’
Sat 25 Apr 2026
Rowan Williams
Yann Martel’s Trojan folly
Sat 25 Apr 2026
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
Railsong hitches a ride to the heart of modern India
Sat 25 Apr 2026
Tara Joshi
The grid: The books that made Hogarth Press
Fri 24 Apr 2026
Hephzibah Anderson
Femme Feral is a sly werewolf horror about the menopause
Fri 24 Apr 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Hayek’s Bastards by Quinn Slobodian
Fri 24 Apr 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Ashley Hickson-Lovence: ‘We need a seismic shift in English teaching’
Thu 23 Apr 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Barbara Pym to Mary Beard
Thu 23 Apr 2026
Josephine Balmer
Mary Beard wants us to rethink the Classics
Thu 23 Apr 2026
Samantha Harvey
Barbara Pym’s doll’s house
Thu 23 Apr 2026
Kenan Malik
The toxic myth of white decline
Wed 22 Apr 2026
Colin Bramwell
The Sunday Poem:Â You walk past (after Tsvetaeva)
Sun 19 Apr 2026
Sam Freedman
How to build a model Britain
Sun 19 Apr 2026
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch is a genre-defying delight
Sat 18 Apr 2026
John Lanchester
What to read to understand privilege
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Andrew Hussey
France’s forgotten father of the far right
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Earth to Earth by John Cornwell
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week:Â Lena Dunham on fame and Tom Junod on fathers
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Anna Leszkiewicz
In Famesick, Lena Dunham tells the whole, painful truth
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Lisa O’Kelly
Dominic Gregory: ‘You have to want to go and save lives’
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Jude Rogers
The Passion of Jon Doyle
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Xavier Greenwood
A father’s secret life
Wed 15 Apr 2026
Jeevan Vasagar
Amitav Ghosh: ‘It’s a fool’s errand to imagine the future’
Sun 12 Apr 2026
Kathleen Jamie
The Sunday Poem: Rowan
Sun 12 Apr 2026
Anna Leszkiewicz
The lost empress of the tarot
Sat 11 Apr 2026
Sara Wheeler
What to read to understand cities
Sat 11 Apr 2026
Kitty Empire
Chapter books of the month: in the space between worlds
Sat 11 Apr 2026
Melissa Denes
The bad mother myth
Fri 10 Apr 2026
Andrew Butler
In search of Rory McIlroy
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Olivia Ovenden
What to read this week, from Patrick Radden Keefe to James Baldwin
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Anthony Cummins
Jay McInerney: ‘It was impossible to have an affair during Covid! I thought that was fun’
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Anthony Cummins
Jay McInerney: ‘It’s just a terrible time to be anywhere in the US’
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Offenses by Constance Debré
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Laura Cumming
Who really killed Zac Brettler?
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Colin Grant
A love letter to James Baldwin
Wed 8 Apr 2026
Hugo Williams
The Sunday Poem: Heartbreak Hotel (Eton College, 1956)
Sun 5 Apr 2026
Deborah Levy
In search of Gertrude Stein
Sun 5 Apr 2026
Killian Fox
Graphic novel of the month: The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart
Sat 4 Apr 2026
Catriona Ward
Catriona Ward: ‘Listening to psychopaths is a very soothing experience for me’
Fri 3 Apr 2026
Sophie Mackintosh
What to read to understand affairs
Fri 3 Apr 2026
Lily Isaacs
Benjamin Wood: ‘I wore waterproof trousers to write in the rain’
Fri 3 Apr 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week:Â I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Rowan Moore
Reinier de Graaf’s manifesto for building a better future
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Olivia Ovenden
What to read this week, from the abyss of dreams to an architectural manifesto
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Eimear McBride
Anna Kavan’s dream vocabulary
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Lamorna Ash
How I became a poster girl for Christianity
Wed 1 Apr 2026
Anthony Cummins
Gwendoline Riley: ‘My writing is pure instinct’
Wed 1 Apr 2026
Jana Prikryl
The Sunday Poem: Prince Rupert
Sun 29 Mar 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry book of the month:Â Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion
Sat 28 Mar 2026
Alex Clark
Stephanie Sy-Quia’s tale of religious and romantic devotion
Sat 28 Mar 2026
Blake Morrison
What to read to understand memory
Sat 28 Mar 2026
Catherine Taylor
Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘Tanzania is deeply embedded in my imagination’
Fri 27 Mar 2026
Olivia Ovenden
What to read this week, from Harry and Meghan to Alan Bennett’s diaries
Thu 26 Mar 2026
Chris Power
You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love by Jean-Noël Orengo
Thu 26 Mar 2026
Giles Whittell
Does ‘Muskism’ mean anything?
Thu 26 Mar 2026
Erica Wagner
Jan Morris, the traveller’s guide
Thu 26 Mar 2026
Tina Brown
Who will care for Harry and Meghan?
Tue 24 Mar 2026
Lynn Barber
Who is the real Alan Bennett?
Tue 24 Mar 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
After 150 years, Mill’s wife gets credit for role in political opus
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Tobias Hill
The Sunday Poem: Gravity
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Lara Feigel
George Sand’s life of radical self-invention
Sat 21 Mar 2026
‘This was literature as gelignite’
Sat 21 Mar 2026
Patrick Kidd
Len Deighton, novelist and cookery writer
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Alexi Mostrous
Can AI write a Booker prize-winning novel?
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week:Â Overnight by Dan Richards
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Alex Preston
John Lanchester’s warped generational satire
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Rebecca Solnit to Yoko Ono
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Kathleen Jamie
Rebecca Solnit and the audacity of hope
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Richard Ovenden
How Thames & Hudson brought art to the masses
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Lily Isaacs
Yoko Ono’s shadowed life
Wed 18 Mar 2026
Lily Isaacs
The obsession with unmasking Elena Ferrante
Mon 16 Mar 2026
Stephen Sexton
The Sunday Poem:Â Lot 249
Sun 15 Mar 2026
David Barnett
Country star pays record $12m for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road scroll
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Elif Shafak
How Naz Shah broke a legacy of violence
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Tom Lamont
Tom Lamont: ‘13 was when I realised that I’m good, not great, at certain things’
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Erica Wagner
I wasn’t bored by The Secret Agent, I just couldn’t stay. It’s actually a compliment
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Imogen Carter
Picture books of the month: finding your happy place
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Sarah Dear
Why people are turning to AI for love, therapy and life after death
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Hayley Myers
Flick through the Jeremy Liebman family album
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Anthony Cummins
Why Hollywood has fallen in love with Thomas Pynchon
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Anthony Cummins
Isabel Waidner’s As If is a daring doppelganger puzzle
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week: understanding Iran, and Dunblane 30 years on
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Killian Fox
Djamel White: ‘Dublin gangsters have a folkloric quality’
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Ruth Michaelson
What to read to understand Iran
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Nicola Sturgeon
The avoidable tragedy of Dunblane
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Andrew Motion
The Sunday Poem: Dark Rain
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Megha Mohan
What to read to understand matriarchy
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Andrew Anthony
Melvyn Bragg: ‘There are too many people against the BBC now’
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Anthony Cummins
Howard Jacobson’s great unravelling
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
The most famous author you might not know
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Monet by Jackie Wullschläger
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Stephanie Merritt
On trauma and terriers: Fatima Bhutto’s The Hour of the Wolf
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Tom Gatti
What reading aloud to my children taught me
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Alice Coltrane to Michael Pollan
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Sophie McBain
Michael Pollan tackles the hard problem of consciousness
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Killian Fox
Graphic novel of the month: Dear Historian by Joff Winterhart
Thu 5 Mar 2026
