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Olivia Ovenden
Prestige Drama is a bitterly funny take on TV’s obsession with the Troubles
Thu 14 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from wild places to Troubles tourism
Thu 14 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Yassmin Abdel-Magied: ‘I’m nostalgic for life on the oil rig’
Wed 13 May 2026
Erica Wagner
The women who brought the Nazis to justice
Wed 13 May 2026
Megan Nolan
Blake Morrison’s guide to life-writing
Tue 12 May 2026
Anna Leszkiewicz
Liz Allan’s 1990s-set novel smells like teen spirit
Sun 10 May 2026
Anna Woodford
The Sunday Poem: Victorian Honeymoon
Sun 10 May 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Sat 9 May 2026
Killian Fox
Graphic novel of the month: Opioids and Organs by Arizona O’Neill
Sat 9 May 2026
Robert Macfarlane
What to read to understand birds
Sat 9 May 2026
Anthony Cummins
Ben Lerner’s anxious generations
Fri 8 May 2026
Nicola Sturgeon
Douglas Stuart’s island of lost souls
Thu 7 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from life with Paul Auster to the return of Douglas Stuart
Thu 7 May 2026
Erica Wagner
Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster and a love that wasn’t enough
Thu 7 May 2026
Andrew Anthony
How the assisted dying debate became a tribal war
Tue 5 May 2026
Jeet Thayil
The Sunday Poem:Â A New Vernacular
Sun 3 May 2026
Colin Kidd
How the General Strike changed Britain
Sat 2 May 2026
Tim Adams
JG Ballard’s lessons in life and death
Fri 1 May 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week:Â Shamanism by Manvir Singh
Fri 1 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from Tana French to the joy of swimming
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Nell Frizzell
What to read to understand swimming
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Olivia Laing
The chaos and passion of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry books of the month: Melete and Yiewsley
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Lily Isaacs
Nelio Biedermann explains how he became a bestselling novelist at 22
Wed 29 Apr 2026
Killian Fox
David Keenan: ‘I want my books to be horny’
Wed 29 Apr 2026
Stephanie Merritt
To understand modern Ireland, read Tana French
Wed 29 Apr 2026
Kim Moore
The Sunday Poem:Â Many Answers to the Same Question
Sun 26 Apr 2026
Lucie McKnight Hardy
What to read to understand toxic female friendships
Sun 26 Apr 2026
Rowan Williams
Yann Martel’s Trojan folly
Sat 25 Apr 2026
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
Railsong hitches a ride to the heart of modern India
Sat 25 Apr 2026
Tara Joshi
The grid: The books that made Hogarth Press
Fri 24 Apr 2026
Hephzibah Anderson
Femme Feral is a sly werewolf horror about the menopause
Fri 24 Apr 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Hayek’s Bastards by Quinn Slobodian
Fri 24 Apr 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Ashley Hickson-Lovence: ‘We need a seismic shift in English teaching’
Thu 23 Apr 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Barbara Pym to Mary Beard
Thu 23 Apr 2026
Josephine Balmer
Mary Beard wants us to rethink the Classics
Thu 23 Apr 2026
Samantha Harvey
Barbara Pym’s doll’s house
Thu 23 Apr 2026
Kenan Malik
The toxic myth of white decline
Wed 22 Apr 2026
Colin Bramwell
The Sunday Poem:Â You walk past (after Tsvetaeva)
Sun 19 Apr 2026
Sam Freedman
How to build a model Britain
Sun 19 Apr 2026
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch is a genre-defying delight
Sat 18 Apr 2026
John Lanchester
What to read to understand privilege
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Andrew Hussey
France’s forgotten father of the far right
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Earth to Earth by John Cornwell
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week:Â Lena Dunham on fame and Tom Junod on fathers
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Anna Leszkiewicz
In Famesick, Lena Dunham tells the whole, painful truth
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Lisa O’Kelly
Dominic Gregory: ‘You have to want to go and save lives’
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Jude Rogers
The Passion of Jon Doyle
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Xavier Greenwood
A father’s secret life
Wed 15 Apr 2026
Jeevan Vasagar
Amitav Ghosh: ‘It’s a fool’s errand to imagine the future’
Sun 12 Apr 2026
Kathleen Jamie
The Sunday Poem: Rowan
Sun 12 Apr 2026
Sara Wheeler
What to read to understand cities
Sat 11 Apr 2026
Kitty Empire
Chapter books of the month: in the space between worlds
Sat 11 Apr 2026
Melissa Denes
The bad mother myth
Fri 10 Apr 2026
Andrew Butler
In search of Rory McIlroy
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Olivia Ovenden
What to read this week, from Patrick Radden Keefe to James Baldwin
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Offenses by Constance Debré
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Laura Cumming
Who really killed Zac Brettler?
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Colin Grant
A love letter to James Baldwin
Wed 8 Apr 2026
Hugo Williams
The Sunday Poem: Heartbreak Hotel (Eton College, 1956)
Sun 5 Apr 2026
Deborah Levy
In search of Gertrude Stein
Sun 5 Apr 2026
Killian Fox
Graphic novel of the month: The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart
Sat 4 Apr 2026
Sophie Mackintosh
What to read to understand affairs
Fri 3 Apr 2026
Lily Isaacs
Benjamin Wood: ‘I wore waterproof trousers to write in the rain’
Fri 3 Apr 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week:Â I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Rowan Moore
Reinier de Graaf’s manifesto for building a better future
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Olivia Ovenden
What to read this week, from the abyss of dreams to an architectural manifesto
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Eimear McBride
Anna Kavan’s dream vocabulary
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Anthony Cummins
Gwendoline Riley: ‘My writing is pure instinct’
Wed 1 Apr 2026
Jana Prikryl
The Sunday Poem: Prince Rupert
Sun 29 Mar 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry book of the month:Â Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion
Sat 28 Mar 2026
Alex Clark
Stephanie Sy-Quia’s tale of religious and romantic devotion
Sat 28 Mar 2026
Blake Morrison
What to read to understand memory
Sat 28 Mar 2026
Catherine Taylor
Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘Tanzania is deeply embedded in my imagination’
Fri 27 Mar 2026
Olivia Ovenden
What to read this week, from Harry and Meghan to Alan Bennett’s diaries
Thu 26 Mar 2026
Chris Power
You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love by Jean-Noël Orengo
Thu 26 Mar 2026
Giles Whittell
Does ‘Muskism’ mean anything?
Thu 26 Mar 2026
Erica Wagner
Jan Morris, the traveller’s guide
Thu 26 Mar 2026
Tina Brown
Who will care for Harry and Meghan?
Tue 24 Mar 2026
