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Killian Fox
Introducing the Rachel Cooke Graphic Short Story prize

Sun 8 Feb 2026

Introducing the Rachel Cooke Graphic Short Story prize
Sean Gilbert
What to read to understand obsession

Fri 6 Feb 2026

What to read to understand obsession
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette

Fri 6 Feb 2026

Paperback of the week: Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Gordon Brown to a history of plagiarism

Thu 5 Feb 2026

What to read this week, from Gordon Brown to a history of plagiarism
Jude Rogers
Why plagiarism matters in the age of AI

Thu 5 Feb 2026

Why plagiarism matters in the age of AI
Killian Fox
All the Living by Roman Muradov

Thu 5 Feb 2026

All the Living by Roman Muradov
Chris Power
Mathias Énard: ‘I write with a bastard tongue’

Thu 5 Feb 2026

Mathias Énard: ‘I write with a bastard tongue’
Nicola Sturgeon
Why I changed my mind about Gordon Brown

Thu 5 Feb 2026

Why I changed my mind about Gordon Brown
Jeevan Vasagar
Clean energy’s dirty truths

Wed 4 Feb 2026

Clean energy’s dirty truths
Erica Wagner
Catherine Newman’s American pastoral

Sun 1 Feb 2026

Catherine Newman’s American pastoral
Matt Howard
Light in the form of a hare

Sun 1 Feb 2026

Light in the form of a hare
Jade Cuttle
Poetry book of the month: Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf

Sat 31 Jan 2026

Poetry book of the month: Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf
Chris Power
Paperback of the week – Israel: A Personal History by Göran Rosenberg

Sat 31 Jan 2026

Paperback of the week – Israel: A Personal History by Göran Rosenberg
Catherine Taylor
The growing pains of Mark Haddon

Fri 30 Jan 2026

The growing pains of Mark Haddon
Marina Wheeler
What to read to understand Britain and Europe

Fri 30 Jan 2026

What to read to understand Britain and Europe
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from warring Murdochs to world-changing stories

Thu 29 Jan 2026

What to read this week, from warring Murdochs to world-changing stories
Basia Cummings
A good story can transport us to other worlds – or transform this one

Thu 29 Jan 2026

A good story can transport us to other worlds – or transform this one
Sarah Moss
Ali Smith’s Glyph goes back to the future

Thu 29 Jan 2026

Ali Smith’s Glyph goes back to the future
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
‘I’m absolutely against the purity of language’

Thu 29 Jan 2026

‘I’m absolutely against the purity of language’
Tina Brown
Rupert Murdoch’s hunger games

Tue 27 Jan 2026

Rupert Murdoch’s hunger games
Kim Willsher
France’s far-right earthquake

Tue 27 Jan 2026

France’s far-right earthquake
Jeet Thayil
The Sunday Poem: Inheritance by Jeet Thayil

Sun 25 Jan 2026

The Sunday Poem: Inheritance by Jeet Thayil
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
When India was the seat of Islam

Fri 23 Jan 2026

When India was the seat of Islam
Anthony Cummins
The best debut novelists of 2026

Fri 23 Jan 2026

The best debut novelists of 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from George Saunders to Jaipur literature festival

Thu 22 Jan 2026

What to read this week, from George Saunders to Jaipur literature festival
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha

Thu 22 Jan 2026

Paperback of the week: The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha
Anthony Cummins
George Saunders’s sympathy for the devil

Thu 22 Jan 2026

George Saunders’s sympathy for the devil
Tim Adams
Richard Flanagan: ‘Who do we love? How do we live? These questions haunt us’

Wed 21 Jan 2026

Richard Flanagan: ‘Who do we love? How do we live? These questions haunt us’
Tim Adams
Hallie Rubenhold: ‘History is meant to be rewritten – it’s not fixed’

Wed 21 Jan 2026

Hallie Rubenhold: ‘History is meant to be rewritten – it’s not fixed’
Olivia Ovenden
Confessions of a New England divorcee

Tue 20 Jan 2026

Confessions of a New England divorcee
Vanessa Thorpe
‘Make addictive algorithms illegal’, says world wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee

Mon 19 Jan 2026

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

Sun 18 Jan 2026

Mineral
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Righting Wrongs by Kenneth Roth

Sat 17 Jan 2026

Paperback of the week: Righting Wrongs by Kenneth Roth
Carolina Unzelte
What to read to understand Venezuela

Sat 17 Jan 2026

What to read to understand Venezuela
Rutger Bregman

33 mins • S1, E1

Rutger Bregman
K Biswas
Will this book make you less racist?

Fri 16 Jan 2026

Will this book make you less racist?
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Hillary Clinton to the Beatles

Thu 15 Jan 2026

What to read this week, from Hillary Clinton to the Beatles
John Bew
Inside the White House situation room

Thu 15 Jan 2026

Inside the White House situation room
Lucy Popescu
Daniyal Mueenuddin and the making of 20th-century Pakistan

Thu 15 Jan 2026

Daniyal Mueenuddin and the making of 20th-century Pakistan

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