Introducing the Rachel Cooke Graphic Short Story prize

Sun 8 Feb 2026

What to read to understand obsession

Fri 6 Feb 2026

Paperback of the week: Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette

Fri 6 Feb 2026

What to read this week, from Gordon Brown to a history of plagiarism

Thu 5 Feb 2026

Why plagiarism matters in the age of AI

Thu 5 Feb 2026

All the Living by Roman Muradov

Thu 5 Feb 2026

Mathias Énard: ‘I write with a bastard tongue’

Thu 5 Feb 2026

Why I changed my mind about Gordon Brown

Thu 5 Feb 2026

Clean energy’s dirty truths

Wed 4 Feb 2026

Catherine Newman’s American pastoral

Sun 1 Feb 2026

Light in the form of a hare

Sun 1 Feb 2026

Poetry book of the month: Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf

Sat 31 Jan 2026

Paperback of the week – Israel: A Personal History by Göran Rosenberg

Sat 31 Jan 2026

The growing pains of Mark Haddon

Fri 30 Jan 2026

What to read to understand Britain and Europe

Fri 30 Jan 2026

What to read this week, from warring Murdochs to world-changing stories

Thu 29 Jan 2026

A good story can transport us to other worlds – or transform this one

Thu 29 Jan 2026

Ali Smith’s Glyph goes back to the future

Thu 29 Jan 2026

‘I’m absolutely against the purity of language’

Thu 29 Jan 2026

Rupert Murdoch’s hunger games

Tue 27 Jan 2026

France’s far-right earthquake

Tue 27 Jan 2026

The Sunday Poem: Inheritance by Jeet Thayil

Sun 25 Jan 2026

When India was the seat of Islam

Fri 23 Jan 2026

The best debut novelists of 2026

Fri 23 Jan 2026

What to read this week, from George Saunders to Jaipur literature festival

Thu 22 Jan 2026

Paperback of the week: The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha

Thu 22 Jan 2026

George Saunders’s sympathy for the devil

Thu 22 Jan 2026

Richard Flanagan: ‘Who do we love? How do we live? These questions haunt us’

Wed 21 Jan 2026

Hallie Rubenhold: ‘History is meant to be rewritten – it’s not fixed’

Wed 21 Jan 2026

Confessions of a New England divorcee

Tue 20 Jan 2026

‘Make addictive algorithms illegal’, says world wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee

Mon 19 Jan 2026

Mineral

Sun 18 Jan 2026

Paperback of the week: Righting Wrongs by Kenneth Roth

Sat 17 Jan 2026

What to read to understand Venezuela

Sat 17 Jan 2026

Rutger Bregman

Will this book make you less racist?

Fri 16 Jan 2026

What to read this week, from Hillary Clinton to the Beatles

Thu 15 Jan 2026

Inside the White House situation room

Thu 15 Jan 2026

Daniyal Mueenuddin and the making of 20th-century Pakistan

Thu 15 Jan 2026

Ian Leslie: ‘The Beatles are nice people to hang out with’

Thu 15 Jan 2026

Love, loss and Salman Rushdie

Thu 15 Jan 2026

Chapter books of the month: adventurers assemble

Thu 15 Jan 2026

The fierce life of Louise Bourgeois

Wed 14 Jan 2026

The Sunday Poem: burning car by Andrew McMillan

Sun 11 Jan 2026

Julian Barnes’s search for an ending

Sat 10 Jan 2026

Writers’ rules and how to break them

Fri 9 Jan 2026

Paperback of the week: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Thu 8 Jan 2026

A love letter to romance fiction

Thu 8 Jan 2026

What to read this week, from graphic novels to books on Bowie

Thu 8 Jan 2026

The Crystal Vase by Astrid Goldsmith

Thu 8 Jan 2026

What to read to understand Bowie

Thu 8 Jan 2026

Gerald Murnane: ‘I think of my mind as a grassland or prairie’

Wed 7 Jan 2026

The long history of American overreach

Wed 7 Jan 2026

Pressed by Blake Morrison

Sun 4 Jan 2026

Confessions of a parish priest

Sat 3 Jan 2026

The women who fought for justice over child custody

Sat 3 Jan 2026

Paperback of the week: Pelican Child by Joy Williams

Sat 3 Jan 2026

Fiction to look out for in 2026

Thu 1 Jan 2026

Nonfiction to look out for in 2026

Thu 1 Jan 2026

The Sunday Poem: Green by Josephine Balmer

Sun 28 Dec 2025

Scratching the Sky

Sun 28 Dec 2025

Portrait of the artist as a Hollywood icon

Wed 24 Dec 2025

Anne Enright: ‘I’m constitutionally averse to misogyny’

Wed 24 Dec 2025

William Maxwell’s great American novel

Tue 23 Dec 2025

The downfall of David Walliams can only be good news for children’s books

Sat 20 Dec 2025

In search of the ghosts of Christmas past

Fri 19 Dec 2025

What to read to understand wit

Fri 19 Dec 2025

What to read this week, from Patricia Lockwood to Henry Kissinger

Thu 18 Dec 2025

Paperback of the week: The Lord by Soraya Antonius

Thu 18 Dec 2025

The 25 best books of the century so far

Thu 18 Dec 2025

The world according to Henry Kissinger

Thu 18 Dec 2025

The sisterhood that saved Afghanistan’s female judges

Thu 18 Dec 2025

The great Italian escape

Wed 17 Dec 2025

Underhill by Lavinia Greenlaw

Sun 14 Dec 2025

Paperback of the week: Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt

Sat 13 Dec 2025

In defence of pedantry

Sat 13 Dec 2025

What to read to understand Jane Austen

Thu 11 Dec 2025

What to read this week, from Elizabeth Kolbert to Tom Paulin

Thu 11 Dec 2025

Elizabeth Kolbert’s alarm call

Thu 11 Dec 2025

James Fox: ‘The crafts are always revived in times of crisis’

Thu 11 Dec 2025

Tom Paulin’s exile state of mind

Wed 10 Dec 2025

Lessons of the 1929 Wall Street crash

Tue 9 Dec 2025

Introducing The Observer’s Sunday poem

Sun 7 Dec 2025

The Overload by Simon Armitage

Sun 7 Dec 2025

Lament for a lost London

Sat 6 Dec 2025

What it means to be German

Fri 5 Dec 2025

What to read to understand vampires

Fri 5 Dec 2025

Return to the Jon Fosse universe

Thu 4 Dec 2025

The Future Loves You by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

Thu 4 Dec 2025

The infernal world of Christopher Marlowe

Thu 4 Dec 2025

What to read this week, from Christopher Marlowe to Joe Sacco

Thu 4 Dec 2025

Joe Sacco: ‘I can’t turn away from what’s going on in Gaza’

Wed 3 Dec 2025

The man behind Palantir’s military-industrial empire

Tue 2 Dec 2025

Paperback of the week: We Live Here Now by CD Rose

Fri 28 Nov 2025

The best children’s books of 2025

Thu 27 Nov 2025

A Christmas books special

Thu 27 Nov 2025

Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘I’ve seen a whole system collapse and fade away’

Thu 27 Nov 2025

Writers choose their 2025 favourites

Thu 27 Nov 2025

The Observer’s books of the year 2025

Thu 27 Nov 2025