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Alex Hyde
What to read to understand the YBAs
Sat 27 Jun 2026
Killian Fox
In Togetherness, Rowan Hooper celebrates nature’s brilliant double acts
Sat 27 Jun 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry books of the month: the view from the corner table
Sat 27 Jun 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Beeban Kidron’s Users calls out the tech bros making billions selling porn to children
Fri 26 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Natural Disaster chronicles the mother’s lot in frank and funny style
Fri 26 Jun 2026
John Bew
The political thinkers who envisaged a better postwar world
Thu 25 Jun 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: You Must Live – New Poetry from Palestine
Thu 25 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from Tina Brown on Trump to poems from Palestine
Thu 25 Jun 2026
Tina Brown
A gold-embossed tyrant
Wed 24 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Emma-Lee Moss: ‘Hong Kong ceased to exist as I’d known it’
Wed 24 Jun 2026
Lara Feigel
Whatever became of Renoir’s Pink and Blue girls?
Tue 23 Jun 2026
Will Eaves
The Sunday Poem: Semi-Desert
Mon 22 Jun 2026
John Self
Karen Jennings’ emotionally rich tale of emancipation
Mon 22 Jun 2026
Courtney Maum
What to read to understand opting out
Sat 20 Jun 2026
Alex Clark
Colm Toibin’s The News from Dublin: striking stories of exile and return
Sat 20 Jun 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Eric Cantona’s 82 Goals by Valentin Deudon
Fri 19 Jun 2026
Helen Macdonald
The visions of M John Harrison
Fri 19 Jun 2026
Fintan O’Toole
Shakespeare without borders
Thu 18 Jun 2026
Kitty Empire
Simon Reynolds’ hazy history of shoegaze
Thu 18 Jun 2026
John Self
Meena Kandasamy’s Fieldwork As a Sex Object is a potent deepfake satire
Thu 18 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from Shakespeare in translation to Meena Kandasamy
Thu 18 Jun 2026
Ben Zaranko
A survival guide for the age of trade warfare
Wed 17 Jun 2026
Michael Pedersen
The Sunday Poem: from a plane
Sun 14 Jun 2026
Claire Powell
What to read to understand hotel life
Sat 13 Jun 2026
The children’s books that shaped us
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Lily Isaacs
Virginia Evans: ‘It’s bizarre how we let older women disappear’
Fri 12 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Lyse Doucet: ‘Every day, Afghan women tell me they’re living in a prison’
Fri 12 Jun 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
Fri 12 Jun 2026
Lewis Huxley
Children’s books of the month: creature comforts
Thu 11 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from Anthony Blunt to Ocean Vuong
Thu 11 Jun 2026
Seun Matiluko
Reclaiming the story of Africa
Wed 10 Jun 2026
William Boyd
Anthony Blunt, the spy who outwitted them all
Tue 9 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Ocean Vuong: ‘Service industry work is like a sonnet to me’
Tue 9 Jun 2026
Claudine Toutoungi
The Sunday Poem: Mid-Flight Checks
Sun 7 Jun 2026
Kate Lister
What to read to understand female sexuality
Sun 7 Jun 2026
Killian Fox
Graphic novel of the month: Dogs on Dates by Luke Healy
Sat 6 Jun 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Olivia Laing: ‘The shame of loneliness is agonising’
Sat 6 Jun 2026
Rowan Williams
William Tyndale, the radical who rewrote the Bible
Fri 5 Jun 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Dooneen by Keith Ridgway
Fri 5 Jun 2026
Jessy Parker Humphreys
Football’s multibillion-pound gambling habit
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Sufiyaan Salam’s raucous night out
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from betting on football to tackling the climate crisis
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Jeevan Vasagar
Can Britain adapt to the age of extreme weather?
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Erica Wagner
Ann Patchett’s book of transgressions
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Ten books to pack for your holidays
Mon 1 Jun 2026
Pascale Petit
The Sunday Poem: Nettle dress
Sun 31 May 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry books of the month: the republic of parenthood
Fri 29 May 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Advance Britannia
Fri 29 May 2026
Colin Grant
Jarred McGinnis’s memoir of love and fate
Thu 28 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week, from Richard Dawkins to Tahmima Anam
Thu 28 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Tahmima Anam: ‘I wrote, vomited and thought: Am I a psychopath?’
Thu 28 May 2026
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins on AI, evolution and alien life
Wed 27 May 2026
Stephanie Merritt
Erica Wagner’s Wash is historical fiction at its most alive
Wed 27 May 2026
Maya C Popa
The Sunday Poem: Happenstance
Sun 24 May 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Hannah Murray’s descent into magic and madness
Sat 23 May 2026
Daniel Dylan Wray
What to read to understand music scenes
Sat 23 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
What to read this week: from the International Booker winner to Agnes Owens
Thu 21 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King on queerness and Taiwan’s future
Thu 21 May 2026
John Self
The working-class genius of Agnes Owens
Thu 21 May 2026
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Rowan Williams makes the case for solidarity
Thu 21 May 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder
Thu 21 May 2026
The scammers using AI and flattery to target authors like me
Wed 20 May 2026
Orlando Whitfield
Adam Ross’s Playworld is a rightful heir to Catcher in the Rye
Wed 20 May 2026
Fiona Noble
Young adult books of the month: chaos and the cure
Mon 18 May 2026
Ana Kinsella
What to read to understand artistic partnerships
Mon 18 May 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Director by Daniel Kehlmann
Mon 18 May 2026
Truth, lies and the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge
Sun 17 May 2026
The Sunday poem: Lemons by Patrick Daly
Sun 17 May 2026
K Biswas
The Enlightenment’s invention of racism
Sun 17 May 2026
Kathleen Jamie
The fight to save our wild places
Thu 14 May 2026
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
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
