Books

The last-minute cancellation of the city’s intimate and unpretentious book festival Aye Write is an act of cultural vandalism

Nikita Teryoshin’s chilling photos of ‘The back office of war’

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, books and streaming

A dream provided an epitaph inadvertently appropriate for a man who spent his life producing art and literature that shocked and appalled the unsuspecting

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, television, books and cinema

The Montenegrin has been the subject of a mock trial and effigy-burning over his latest novel, Anomaly

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Will Hutton, journalist and author of The State We’re In, sets out how Labour can remake Britain

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s books and cinema

It might even be better for the Conservatives too, but I am less concerned about them than I am about Britain

Locals have opted to negate the fact that Lawrence’s vision of Italy wasn’t entirely idyllic

Ireland is going through a golden literary age – but Sinéad Gleeson’s extraordinary debut stands out from the rest

Tom Baldwin’s biography of the Labour leader suggests we will see a return to serious politics if Starmer makes it to No 10

How an 18th-century Somerset cobbler’s obsessive love of reading shaped the world of bookselling as we know it

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s books and cinema

In a new book by a best-selling French author, ancient onlookers watch a family come to terms with a disabled child

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, books and cinema

A barely concealed desire for the old Russian empire would infuse his work but even this did not preclude Stalin’s tacit admiration

A great writer travelled to Hungary, wrote a single book, and then disappeared. All she left behind was a masterpiece

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art

Exploring the surprising link between a small town in the shadow of Mount Etna and the most celebrated siblings in English literature

How a Danish archaeologist’s book about ancient bodies found buried in peat bogs inspired some of the poet’s greatest work

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art

Many exiled European writers embraced their situation, but for Zweig the loss of his nation represented the loss of his identity

How a young woman finally unlocked the life ahead of her by spending a year at Wordsworth’s cottage in the Lake District

Taking a risky trip to liberated Kherson with a president who understands his own value as figurehead of a defiant nation

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art

No other writer has captured the singular beauty of the northern French coast like Rebecca Gisler in her debut novel

In an exclusive extract from his diaries of 1999 and 2000, former Labour minister Denis MacShane reveals the growing xenophobia in the Tory Party under William Hague’s leadership – and how it sowed the seeds of Brexit

Serge Gainsbourg’s novel was unquestionably a stinker, but a surprising number of novels by famous people stand up to scrutiny

A Russian author is declared a ‘terrorist’ for opposing Putin. American writers are banned in right-wing states. Where will this end?

In this extract from his new book, bestselling author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers suggests we start to focus on the kind of world we want, not the one we don’t

Reading is not the preferred choice of recreation for France’s youth