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  • The Guardian office during Peter Preston’s editorship.

    Journalism books
    Witness in a Time of Turmoil by Ian Mayes review – behind the scenes at the Guardian

    Joe Moran
    A lively history of the paper from 1986 to 1995 covers global upheaval, internal conflict and a bold but brilliant redesign
  • Books from Fitzcarraldo's poetry list.

    News
    New prize for translated poetry aims to tap into boom for international-language writing

  • Hal Ebbott.

    Fiction
    Among Friends by Hal Ebbott review – how to blow up your life

    Christopher Shrimpton
  • Boy lying on a sofa reading a book

    Children's books
    ‘One kid at a time’: How children’s books on male friendship could combat toxic masculinity

    Sam Leith
  • picture of a snail

    Book of the day
    Endling by Maria Reva review – a Ukrainian caper upended by war

    Marcel Theroux
  • Summer reading

    Books
    Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now

  • From left: Nussaibah Younis, Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Colm Tóibín.

    Summer reading
    My perfect holiday reading, by Bernardine Evaristo, David Nicholls, Zadie Smith and more

What to read

  1. Composite image of best paperbacks June 2025

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Hanif Kureishi, Alexei Navalny and more

  2. Margaret Atwood.

    Ranked
    Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books – ranked!

  3. Edmund White.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Edmund White

Non-fiction reviews

  • Pablo Picasso in 1950.

    Society books
    The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things

    Houman Barekat
  • model of brain

    Science and nature books
    A Trick of the Mind by Daniel Yon review – explaining psychology’s most important theory

    Huw Green
  • A penguin courtship ritual.

    Science and nature books
    The Sexual Evolution by Nathan H Lents review – colourful tales of animal reproduction

    Mythili Rao
  • Sarah Vine and Michael Gove after voting in the Brexit referendum, 2016.

    Autobiography and memoir
    How Not to Be a Political Wife by Sarah Vine review – a bitter memoir of power and betrayal

    Gaby Hinsliff

Fiction & poetry reviews

  1. Marie Rutkoski

    Fiction
    Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski review – some of the best sex scenes I’ve read this year

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  2. Wendy Erskine.

    Fiction
    The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine review – a polyphonic portrait of class and trauma in Belfast

    Sam Byers
  3. Bright sunlight hits the mattress where a young couple try to sleep without closing their venetian blinds.

    Science fiction roundup
    The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror

    Lisa Tuttle
  4. Muckle Flugga, Isle of Unst, Shetland.

    Fiction
    Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen review – anything can happen on this remote Scottish island

    Michael Donkor

Children's and YA books

  1. Wild by Katya Balen, illustrated by Gill Smith.

    Children's books
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  2. gozzle

    Children and teenagers
    The best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  3. Padraig Kenny's chapter book After

    Children's books
    The best new chapter books

    Kitty Empire
  4. Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob, Huw Aaron

    Children's book roundup
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams

Interviews

  1. Yael van der Wouden.

    Women's prize for fiction
    Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

  2. Rachel Clarke.

    Women's prize for nonfiction
    ‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life-saving transplant

  3. Illustration of a young person holding a phone while being submerged by rising waters. By Anna Parini

    Interview
    ‘No smartphones before 14; no social media until 16’: The Anxious Generation author on how to fight back against big tech

Regulars

  • Graham Norton

    The books of my life
    Graham Norton: ‘The Bell Jar changed how I felt about books’

  • a giant white clock melts on to a figure holding a smartphone

    Big idea
    The big idea: should we embrace boredom?

  • Alice Vincent

    Audiobook of the week
    Hark by Alice Vincent audiobook review – a search for silence

  • A spider spins a web early in the morning in a rice field in Kathmandu, Nepal

    Poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Song of Arachnid by Gillian Allnutt

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  1. Pitch-perfect … Julia Donaldson.

    Ranked
    ‘Oh no! It’s a Gruffalo!’ Julia Donaldson’s 15 best books – ranked!

  2. Muriel Spark in 1978.

    Feature
    ‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark

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    Feature
    Funny, weird … sexy? How to find your perfect wedding poem

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