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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
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
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
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
Austin McCoy
What to read to understand hip-hop
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
Sean O’Hagan
Ece Temelkuran: ‘Once you call it fascism you have to act on it’
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ian Thomson
The Soviet Union’s long goodbye
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Daljit Nagra
The Sunday Poem: lips by Daljit Nagra
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
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
Erica Wagner
Catherine Newman’s American pastoral
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Matt Howard
Light in the form of a hare
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
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
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
Tina Brown
Rupert Murdoch’s hunger games
Tue 27 Jan 2026
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
Carolina Unzelte
What to read to understand Venezuela
Sat 17 Jan 2026
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
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
Jade Cuttle
Confessions of a parish priest
Sat 3 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
Ben Okri
Scratching the Sky
Sun 28 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
Lyse Doucet
The sisterhood that saved Afghanistan’s female judges
Thu 18 Dec 2025
James Tapper
Injured Gazan children will be allowed into the UK for treatment
Sun 27 Apr 2025
