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Kim Willsher
France’s far-right earthquake
Tue 27 Jan 2026
Jeet Thayil
The Sunday Poem: Inheritance by Jeet Thayil
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
When India was the seat of Islam
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Anthony Cummins
The best debut novelists of 2026
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from George Saunders to Jaipur literature festival
Thu 22 Jan 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha
Thu 22 Jan 2026
Anthony Cummins
George Saunders’s sympathy for the devil
Thu 22 Jan 2026
Tim Adams
Richard Flanagan: ‘Who do we love? How do we live? These questions haunt us’
Wed 21 Jan 2026
Tim Adams
Hallie Rubenhold: ‘History is meant to be rewritten – it’s not fixed’
Wed 21 Jan 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Confessions of a New England divorcee
Tue 20 Jan 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
‘Make addictive algorithms illegal’, says world wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee
Mon 19 Jan 2026
Kathleen Jamie
Mineral
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week:Â Righting Wrongs by Kenneth Roth
Sat 17 Jan 2026
Megan Nolan
The lost art of paying attention
Sat 17 Jan 2026
Carolina Unzelte
What to read to understand Venezuela
Sat 17 Jan 2026
Rutger Bregman
33 mins • S1, E1
K Biswas
Will this book make you less racist?
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Hillary Clinton to the Beatles
Thu 15 Jan 2026
John Bew
Inside the White House situation room
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Lucy Popescu
Daniyal Mueenuddin and the making of 20th-century Pakistan
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Tim Adams
Ian Leslie: ‘The Beatles are nice people to hang out with’
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Stephanie Merritt
Love, loss and Salman Rushdie
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Kitty Empire
Chapter books of the month: adventurers assemble
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Laura Cumming
The fierce life of Louise Bourgeois
Wed 14 Jan 2026
Andrew McMillan
The Sunday Poem: burning car by Andrew McMillan
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Anthony Cummins
Julian Barnes’s search for an ending
Sat 10 Jan 2026
Tim Adams
‘If you spend a lot of time with another creature, you sense another world’
Sat 10 Jan 2026
Megan Nolan
Writers’ rules and how to break them
Fri 9 Jan 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Caroline Crampton
A love letter to romance fiction
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from graphic novels to books on Bowie
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Killian Fox
The Crystal Vase by Astrid Goldsmith
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Alexander Larman
What to read to understand Bowie
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Gerald Murnane: ‘I think of my mind as a grassland or prairie’
Wed 7 Jan 2026
Erica Wagner
The long history of American overreach
Wed 7 Jan 2026
Blake Morrison
Pressed by Blake Morrison
Sun 4 Jan 2026
Sophie McBain
The women who fought for justice over child custody
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Pelican Child by Joy Williams
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Alex Preston
Fiction to look out for in 2026
Thu 1 Jan 2026
Erica Wagner
Nonfiction to look out for in 2026
Thu 1 Jan 2026
The Sunday Poem: Green by Josephine Balmer
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Martha Gill
Libraries are essential to help us navigate the world
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Ben Okri
Scratching the Sky
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Naomi Alderman
Beavers, books and brilliance: 25 things worth celebrating about 2025
Thu 25 Dec 2025
Killian Fox
Portrait of the artist as a Hollywood icon
Wed 24 Dec 2025
Olivia Ovenden
Anne Enright: ‘I’m constitutionally averse to misogyny’
Wed 24 Dec 2025
John Self
William Maxwell’s great American novel
Tue 23 Dec 2025
Erica Wagner
The downfall of David Walliams can only be good news for children’s books
Sat 20 Dec 2025
David Barnett
In search of the ghosts of Christmas past
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Caitlin O'Kane
What to read to understand wit
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Patricia Lockwood to Henry Kissinger
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Lord by Soraya Antonius
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
The 25 best books of the century so far
Thu 18 Dec 2025
John Bew
The world according to Henry Kissinger
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Lyse Doucet
The sisterhood that saved Afghanistan’s female judges
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Ian Thomson
The great Italian escape
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Anna Leszkiewicz
Patricia Lockwood: ‘We’re due a return of weird literature’
Wed 17 Dec 2025
The best food books of 2025
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Underhill by Lavinia Greenlaw
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Richard Ovenden
In defence of pedantry
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Paula Byrne
What to read to understand Jane Austen
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Elizabeth Kolbert to Tom Paulin
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Kathleen Jamie
Elizabeth Kolbert’s alarm call
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Lisa O’Kelly
James Fox: ‘The crafts are always revived in times of crisis’
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Sean O’Hagan
Tom Paulin’s exile state of mind
Wed 10 Dec 2025
Matthew Bishop
Lessons of the 1929 Wall Street crash
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
Introducing The Observer’s Sunday poem
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Simon Armitage
The Overload by Simon Armitage
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Luke Turner
Lament for a lost London
Sat 6 Dec 2025
John Niven
In my game, crime pays. Do I have it in me?
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Lucy Popescu
What it means to be German
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Christopher Frayling
What to read to understand vampires
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
New ‘romantasy’ novels sell fantasies of sexual violence
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Eimear McBride
Return to the Jon Fosse universe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Chris Power
The Future Loves You by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Jonathan Bate
The infernal world of Christopher Marlowe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Christopher Marlowe to Joe Sacco
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Killian Fox
Joe Sacco: ‘I can’t turn away from what’s going on in Gaza’
Wed 3 Dec 2025
