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Nicola Sturgeon
The avoidable tragedy of Dunblane
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week: understanding Iran, and Dunblane 30 years on
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Killian Fox
Djamel White: ‘Dublin gangsters have a folkloric quality’
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Evan Moffitt
The shattered mirrors of Tehran: war comes to Iran’s Golestan Palace
Wed 11 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
Lily Isaacs
The stains, the shame, the sorrow – Emin’s bed speaks directly to gen Z
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Anthony Cummins
Howard Jacobson’s great unravelling
Sat 7 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
Vanessa Thorpe
Redacted emails raise questions over the BBC’s relationship with the royals
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Lucy Apps’s Gloria Don’t Speak is a profound and important debut
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Sean O’Hagan
Alice Coltrane’s search for the musical divine
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
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Leone Ross: ‘I was ignorant about racism in Britain’
Wed 4 Mar 2026
Mary Jean Chan
The Sunday Poem: Laundry
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Patrick Kidd
Éliane Radigue, abstract composer
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Justine Picardie
What to read to understand the politics of royal fashion
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Róisín Lanigan
The problem with the Good Slut manifesto
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Anthony Quinn
How the British let loose between the wars
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
Makenna Goodman’s surreal cancel-culture comedy
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Rowan Williams
Goethe the radical reactionary
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Tarantula by Eduardo Halfon
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Jade Cuttle
Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by Rishi Dastidar
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Toni Morrison to indie publishing
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Sara Collins
The dazzling, difficult art of Toni Morrison
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Anthony Cummins
Neil Griffiths: ‘Mainstream presses are not taking risks’
Tue 24 Feb 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
How to spot a fake: the artists using AI to blur the concept of authenticity
Tue 24 Feb 2026
Lavinia Greenlaw
Making books with Margaret Busby
Sun 22 Feb 2026
Will Eaves
The Sunday Poem: Dad As Voyager
Sun 22 Feb 2026
Anthony Cummins
Jeremy Cooper’s Discord is a perfectly pitched comedy
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Base Notes by Adelle Stripe
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Mark Solms
What to read to understand Freud
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Stephen Armstrong
Stephen Colbert’s latest run-in with CBS is the thin end of the wedge
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from the Maga right to an Orthodox love story
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Rebecca Perry’s debut novel serves a feast for an unfit king
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Xavier Greenwood
Max Olesker’s gruelling journey to Orthodox Judaism put my own conversion into context
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Kenan Malik
Anatomy of the Maga right
Wed 18 Feb 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Marion Coutts: ‘I essentially think memory is made up’
Tue 17 Feb 2026
Fiona Noble
Young adult books of the month: sisters, lovers and assassins
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Emily Berry
The Sunday Poem: Five Dollar Shake
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Xavier Greenwood
From g’day to ey oop: how Aussie star Jacob Elordi got his Wuthering Heights accent
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Lily Isaacs
Rebecca Fallon’s Family Drama finds sincerity in soap operas
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Rachel Sylvester
The making of Sajid Javid
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Andrew Motion
John Berryman’s great American songbook
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Virago Book of Friendship
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Alexi Mostrous
Cash rules everything in the age of money laundering
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from John Berryman to female friendship
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Clare Clark
Trouble in sunny Spyland
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Simon Parkin
The man making books sexy again
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Ian Thomson
The Soviet Union’s long goodbye
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Sean O’Hagan
Ece Temelkuran: ‘Once you call it fascism you have to act on it’
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Daljit Nagra
The Sunday Poem: lips by Daljit Nagra
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Barnaby Phillips
Return of 100 Benin bronzes puts British Museum on the spot
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Killian Fox
Introducing the Rachel Cooke Graphic Short Story prize
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Sean Gilbert
What to read to understand obsession
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Gordon Brown to a history of plagiarism
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Jude Rogers
Why plagiarism matters in the age of AI
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Killian Fox
All the Living by Roman Muradov
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Chris Power
Mathias Énard: ‘I write with a bastard tongue’
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Lamorna Ash
Emma Corrin plays by their own rules
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Nicola Sturgeon
Why I changed my mind about Gordon Brown
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Jeevan Vasagar
Clean energy’s dirty truths
Wed 4 Feb 2026
Stephen Armstrong
Triple Grammy, no ICE: Bad Bunny leads the cultural backlash against Trump
Tue 3 Feb 2026
Mary Jordan
‘I want to show the audience my life’: Melania Trump’s biographer gives her verdict on the biopic
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Aisling Flaherty
‘I saw the Melania film four times on opening day. Did anyone else?’
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Erica Wagner
Catherine Newman’s American pastoral
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Matt Howard
Light in the form of a hare
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Why is just one candidate tipped for the troubled Tate’s top job?
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry book of the month: Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week – Israel: A Personal History by Göran Rosenberg
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Stephen Armstrong
Melania Trump’s biopic is no normal documentary
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Catherine Taylor
The growing pains of Mark Haddon
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Marina Wheeler
What to read to understand Britain and Europe
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from warring Murdochs to world-changing stories
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Basia Cummings
A good story can transport us to other worlds – or transform this one
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Joel Golby
A googly-eyes trend for a frowny-faced world
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Sarah Moss
Ali Smith’s Glyph goes back to the future
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
‘I’m absolutely against the purity of language’
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Katherine Cowles
Dante or Die: I Do invites you to witness the mess of a wedding
Wed 28 Jan 2026
Tina Brown
Rupert Murdoch’s hunger games
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
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
Giles Whittell
Carney takes Canada
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Joan Didion’s old notes make for an uneasy read
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Petal power: farmers turn to wildflowers to save their crops
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Rory Smith
Rory Smith: Liverpool organises a title party that dare not speak its name
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Séamas O’Reilly
Séamas O’Reilly on his three-year-old’s capitalistic gleam
Fri 25 Apr 2025
