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  • The destroyed interior of the Spellow Hub community library after a night of violent disorder in Liverpool.

    News
    Liverpool library torched by far-right rioters raises repair funds

  • Zora Neale Hurston.

    News
    Unfinished Zora Neale Hurston novel to be published 65 years after her death

    The novelist’s final work, The Life of Herod the Great, will be published in January
  • Zoe Williams reads romance literature.

    Romance books
    My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why

    From fairy porn to romantasy via the Omegaverse, publishing is sexier than ever. The reason? A big shift in gen Z and millennial attitudes to respectability and shame ...
  • my student id 1992 in moscow

    Book of the day
    Goodbye to Russia by Sarah Rainsford review – falling foul of Putin

    Luke Harding
  • 2023 Cheltenham Literature Festival<br>CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 7: Kate Atkinson, English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She is known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories, attends the 2023 Cheltenham Literature Festival on October 7, 2023 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

    Thrillers of the month
    Crime and thrillers of the month

    Alison Flood
  • dictator presides over computer on/off symbol with finger poised to switch it off

    The big idea
    How do you get rid of a dictator?

  • ‘Imaginative empathy’ … Pope Francis.

    News
    Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction

What to read

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Non-fiction reviews

  • Donald and Fred Trump<br>HXHDW7 Donald and Fred Trump

    Autobiography and memoir
    All in the Family by Fred Trump review – when dollars are thicker than blood

    Peter Conrad
  • Jess Phillips Labour MP For Birmingham Yardley

    Politics books
    Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips review – manifesto for a better politics speaks plainly but falls flat

    Rachel Cooke
    The fourth book from the admirable Labour MP is part memoir, part rallying cry – but it feels a bit rushed and too familiar
  • Zappa Family Portrait<br>LOS ANGELES - FEBRUARY 1968: Rock and roll guitariist Frank Zappa poses for a portrait in Laurel Canyon with his wife Gail Zappa and daughter Moon Unit Zappa in February 1968 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Autobiography and memoir
    Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – waspish, funny account of life as Frank Zappa’s daughter

    Nick Duerden
    This memoir about being fathered by the 70s rock oddball and ‘pagan absurdist’ is an extraordinary tale of survival
  • Reah Bravo

    Society books
    Complicit by Reah Bravo review – a revisionist history of #MeToo

    Rebecca Nicholson
  • Houses of Parliament

    Politics books
    Failed State by Sam Freedman review – how to fix Britain

    Sam Leith
  • Mina Smallman at her home in Ramsgate.

    Autobiography and memoir
    A Better Tomorrow: Life Lessons in Hope and Strength by Mina Smallman review

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • A black and white image of Marlon Brando in a cap-sleeved T-shirt.

    Literary criticism
    Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lions

    Anthony Cummins
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Fiction & poetry reviews

  • San Miguel de Allende, Benito Huarez park in Zona Centro in historic city center<br>RM396K San Miguel de Allende, Benito Huarez park in Zona Centro in historic city center

    Fiction
    Rosarita by Anita Desai – a luminous search for a mother

    Stephanie Merritt
  • Walled garden<br>B5XPD3 Walled garden

    Fiction
    The Garden by Clare Beams review – Mother Nature’s mystical powers

    Bidisha Mamata
    A mysterious country garden responds to women desperate for a child in a sometimes slow-going chiller
  • Novelist Ursula Parrott

    Fiction
    Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott review – Bridget Jones in the jazz age

    John Self
    Reissued after a century, this lively, funny and harrowing debut follows a divorcee torn between sexual liberation and the compromised ‘safety’ of marriage in the 1920s
  • Horse and foal in a field in the foreground with verdant landscape in the background stretching out to a mountain range.

    Fiction
    Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan review – old grudges die hard in rural Ireland

    Killian Fox
  • A depiction of the Great Flood from the Epic of Gilgamesh<br>Illustration of a depiction of the Great Flood from the Epic of Gilgamesh

    Fiction
    There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak review – water, water everywhere

    Alex Clark
  • Wigan Casino 50th anniversary northern soul celebration, Blackpool, 2022

    Fiction
    Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers review – northern soul and second chances

    James Smart
  • Danez Smith

    Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

    Rebecca Tamás
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Children's and YA books

  • Hot Dog by Doug Salati

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

    Imogen Russell Williams
  • Reek by Alastair Chisholm<br>

    Children and teenagers
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books

    Kitty Empire
    A hair-raising gameworld adventure, a dystopian thriller set in Edinburgh and a magical tale involving book jumping are among this month’s highlights
  • Grotti by Leonie Lord

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

    Imogen Russell Williams
    A tender-hearted knight; a malodorous mutt; a very mean goose; the last dragon on earth; enemies-to-lovers romance and more
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Interviews

  • Elif Shafak

    Interview
    Elif Shafak: ‘As a writer in Turkey, you can be attacked, put on trial, imprisoned’

  • Richard Evans sitting in a leather armchair.

    Interview
    Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

    The author of the definitive account of the Third Reich on revisiting nazism one last time, the ongoing need to discredit Holocaust denial and fact-checking Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest
  • Ben Myers and Pat Barker<br>Writers Ben Myer and Pat Barker, Durham, UK.

    Interview
    Pat Barker and Benjamin Myers in conversation: ‘I’m absolutely intolerable when I’m not writing’

    Ahead of new books by both, the two English novelists discuss their friendship, the baggage that comes with being labelled ‘northern writers’ and why the Krankies’ memoir is a must-read
  • Mick Herron.

    Interview
    Mick Herron: ‘Most people didn’t know I was writing – I was a secretive kind of writer’

  • OBserver Books<br>Orlaine McDonald, author of debut novel = No Small Thing. Photographed at home in South London.

    Books interview
    Orlaine McDonald: ‘As a writer it’s important that I don’t look away’

    Ursula Kenny
  • China Miéville and Keanu Reeves.

    Interview
    ‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix

    Sam Leith
  • C Pam Zhang - OBSERVER BOOKS 14.7.24

    Interview
    C Pam Zhang: ‘I was aware of the drift towards fascism in Europe’

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Regulars

  • Claire Kilroy.

    The books of my life
    Claire Kilroy: ‘My moral compass has turned 180 degrees on Lolita’

  • dictator presides over computer on/off symbol with finger poised to switch it off

    Big idea
    The big idea: how do you get rid of a dictator?

    From Vladimir Putin to Kim Jong-un, tyrants today seem stronger than ever. So are we stuck with them?
  • James Baldwin.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: James Baldwin

    The great American author and civil rights activist’s works offered prophetic warnings, generosity of spirit and clarity like no other when it came to race relations
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