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  • Marlon James, left, and Nicholas Boggs.

    Interview
    ‘Our third date was at Buckingham Palace’: Marlon James and Nicholas Boggs on life as a literary power couple

    Emma Loffhagen
    Shortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and living together – and giving a voice to Black queer history
  • Murakami in April 2005

    News
    Ryu Murakami, cult Japanese author, dies aged 74

  • Bonnie Garmus

    The books of my life
    Lessons in Chemistry author Bonnie Garmus: ‘I wrote my first novel at 12 – it has not yet found a publisher’

  • Humza Yousaf with his wife, Nadia, and daughter in 2023.

    Book of the day
    Under Fire by Humza Yousaf – a deeply affecting story of being stranded in Gaza

    Fiona Sturges
  • Dogs, Dogs, Dogs by John Devolle

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

    Imogen Russell Williams
  • Renée Zellweger and Helen Fielding

    News
    Helen Fielding launches Bridget Jones prize for northern comedy writing

  • Laleh Khadivi.

    Book of the day
    Female Life on Planet Earth by Laleh Khadivi review – a mother’s secret past in the Iranian revolution

    Shahidha Bari

What to read

  • *100Novels

    100 best novels
    The 100 best novels of all time

  • Paperback comp Trail

    This month's best paperbacks
    The best books to read in October: new paperbacks from Zadie Smith, Thomas Pynchon and Francis Spufford

  • Book covers of Ruins, Child by Giada Scodellaro, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, and Beloved by Toni Morrison

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: China Miéville, Sebastian Barry, Derek Owusu and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in September

  • Lieke Marsman author

    Autobiography and memoir
    On Another Planet They Can Save Me by Lieke Marsman review – an astonishing memoir of terminal illness

    Edward Posnett
  • Tessa Hadley

    Essays
    Alone With a Book by Tessa Hadley review – an acclaimed writer’s cultural prescription

    Chloë Ashby
  • Larry David

    Biography books
    Emperor of Nothing by Blake J Harris review – the definitive portrait of Larry David

    Dorian Lynskey
  • Hannah Arendt in 1949.

    Politics books
    Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History by Benjamin Moser review – the deep roots of a contemporary movement

    Tom Sperlinger
  • Thure Erik Lund.

    Fiction in translation
    The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch by Thure Erik Lund review – is this the greatest living Norwegian writer?

    Sukhdev Sandhu
  • An orthostate depicting Gilgamesh between two minotaur demigods holding up a sun disc.

    Poetry
    Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated for our times

    Philip Terry
  • Audrey Niffenegger.

    Fiction
    Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger review – does this sequel measure up to The Time Traveler’s Wife?

    Beejay Silcox
  • Ian Rankin … The Heights is his first standalone thriller in almost two decades.

    Crime and thrillers roundup
    The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

    Laura Wilson
  • 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
  • Elif Shafak.

    Interview
    ‘Is there any value in writing a story in a time of chaos?’: novelist Elif Shafak on her creative crisis

    Lisa Allardice
  • Ian Rankin.

    Interview
    ‘The crime fiction I’m interested in is political’: Ian Rankin on his new novel about the super-rich

    Alex Clark
  • Audrey Neffenegger at her home in Chicago.

    Interview
    ‘People forgot I existed’: Audrey Niffenegger on taking 14 years to write a sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife

    Sophie McBain

Regulars

  • Bonnie Garmus

    The books of my life
    Lessons in Chemistry author Bonnie Garmus: ‘I wrote my first novel at 12 – it has not yet found a publisher’

  • illustration of a person shouting silhouetted against flames.

    Big idea
    The problem with telling people the world is ending

  • Luke Kennard.

    Audiobook of the week
    Black Bag by Luke Kennard audiobook review – brilliant Booker-shortlisted campus comedy

  • 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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