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  • Dorthe Nors looks off to the side, wearing a black top against green foliage

    Fiction
    Range by Dorthe Nors review – an astrophysicist at odds with reality

    Caleb Klaces
    In the Danish writer’s latest novel, an eminent scientist withdraws to the countryside
  • Police officers link arms to hold back screaming, reaching Beatles fans

    Book of the day
    Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965-66 by David Kynaston review – a tour de force of popular history

    Blake Morrison
  • Tomi Adeyemi.

    Interview
    Tomi Adeyemi on the film of her hit novel Children of Blood and Bone: ‘I don’t plan to watch it’

    Emma Loffhagen
  • Smiley yellow face

    The big idea
    Does avoiding misery make you happy?

    George Loewenstein
  • Louise Kennedy.

    Interview
    ‘We left Ireland because there wasn’t work – and we wanted to get the hell away’: Trespasses author Louise Kennedy

    Alex Clark
  • illustration of man stepping up to monitor in style of simple graphics simulator

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on the author simulator – cartoon

  • Rose Tremain.

    Essay
    ‘My generation of novelists is dying’: Rose Tremain on 70 years of writing, and late-life inspiration

    Rose Tremain

What to read

  • *100Novels

    100 best novels
    The 100 best novels of all time

  • Paperbacks Sept trail

    This month's best paperbacks
    The best books to read in September: new paperbacks from Margaret Atwood, Kiran Desai and Richard Holmes

  • Contrapposto by Dave Eggers Raveheart, Graeme Armstrong Dead Fashion Girl by Fred Vermorel What We're Reading September 2026

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: Irvine Welsh, Janice Hallett and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in August

  • A shopper holds a copy of Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer's book "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister"

    Autobiography and memoir
    Swan Song by Charles Spencer review – a furious exercise in score-settling by Diana’s brother

    Emma Brockes
  • A tunnel through trees near Chichester, West Sussex.

    Autobiography and memoir
    Autumn by Kate Mosse review – tender reflections on time and place

    Ruth Padel
  • A salesperson reaches up to take an AR-15 rifle off a gun store wall in Orem, Utah

    Nonfiction
    The American Way of Killing by Malcolm Gladwell review – wide of the mark

    Gary Younge
  • Mahmoud Khalil speaks into a microphone at a news conference, gesturing with his hand

    Autobiography and memoir
    No Land to Stand On by Mahmoud Khalil review – a searing account of political imprisonment

    Houman Barekat
  • AK Blakemore (c) Sophie Davidson

    Fiction
    Doom Painting by AK Blakemore review – a dazzling epic of the Peasants’ Revolt

    Sandra Newman
  • Derek Owusu.

    Fiction
    The Recovery House by Derek Owusu review – a uniquely honest view of mental health

    Emma Loffhagen
  • Naomi Alderman.

    Fiction
    The Strangers by Naomi Alderman review – where has this odd new species come from?

    Keiran Goddard
  • Tice Cin.

    Fiction
    Safe Spaces by Tice Cin review – a kaleidoscopic vision of precarity, music and grief

    Sana Goyal
  • Once Upon a Tiger by Sarah Massini

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

    Imogen Russell Williams
  • Small Monster, Big Monster by Allan Sanders.

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

    Imogen Russell Williams
  • My Dad Can by Stephen Lightbown and Claire Sahara Lemp.

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

    Imogen Russell Williams
  • Ban Ban’s Bakery by Elena Hiroko Magee

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

    Imogen Russell Williams
  • Jonathan Franzen

    Interview
    Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’

    Sophie McBain
  • Author Emily St John Mandel, with short brown hair and a necklace, smiles gently

    Interview
    Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’

    Hannah Marriott
  • Julia Donaldson.

    Interview
    Julia Donaldson: ‘Am I the Gruffalo Granny? Not really. I’m the mouse’

    Joanna Moorhead

Regulars

  • Kevin Powers.

    The books of my life
    Kevin Powers: ‘I was ready to abandon Infinite Jest a thousand times’

  • Smiley yellow face

    Big idea
    Does avoiding misery make you happy?

  • Narrator Bill Nighy.

    Audiobook of the week
    Yellow Dog by Martin Amis review – Bill Nighy has a ball

  • Carol Rumens

    Poem of the week
    ‘She made Mondays something to look forward to’: readers pay tribute to Carol Rumens, Guardian’s Poem of the week columnist

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    Ranked
    Celebrity, sex and motherhood misery: the 10 best books by Rachel Cusk … ranked!

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    I was asked to write a new Miss Marple, so I sent her to the Alps

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    Feature
    Singapore is paying people to read books – can it fix the reading crisis?

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