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  • Cartoon of Donald Trump riding a polar bear

    The big idea
    Did Trump get one thing right about Greenland?

    Rana Foroohar
    Threatening an ally is a terrible idea, but there’s no denying the Arctic’s increasing strategic importance
  • 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
  • AK Blakemore, with curly hair in a grey sweater, gazes sideways amid foliage

    Books of my life
    AK Blakemore: ‘The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt was extremely silly and bad’

    AK Blakemore
  • The Eye of Goliath reimagines The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, adapted for film in 1931.

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

    Lisa Tuttle

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

  • 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

  • Whitney Houston in 1999.

    Biography books
    Holding Lightning by Emily Lordi review – an intimate portrait of Whitney Houston

    Priya Elan
  • David Byrne in a blue suit and striped shirt, with his hand outstretched

    Nonfiction
    Sleeping Beauties by David Byrne review – a quirky journey through the afterlife of invention

    Sukhdev Sandhu
  • Poet Alice Oswald looks at the camera, with blurred bookshelves behind her

    Literary criticism
    Rhapsody: A Manifesto by Alice Oswald review – a history of the spoken word, from Homer to Ted Hughes

    Fiona Sampson
  • The Milky Way above the Grand Canyon of Thailand.

    Science and nature books
    On the Equality of All Things by Carlo Rovelli review – a physicist’s guide to life, the universe and everything

    Farrah Jarral
  • Stephen King.

    Fiction
    Other Worlds Than These by Stephen King and Peter Straub review – a self-indulgent finale to the Talisman trilogy

    Alison Flood
  • Barbara Kingsolver.

    Fiction
    Partita By Barbara Kingsolver review – a midlife follow-up to Demon Copperhead

    Lara Feigel
  • Lily James (front) as Mrs de Winter and Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs Danvers and in the 2020 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.

    Fiction
    The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain review – a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca

    Clare Clark
  • Poet John Cooper Clarke, with dark hair and sunglasses, stands on a city street

    Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

    Jennifer Lee Tsai
  • 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
  • Nick Hayes photographed at the Hardwick Estate. August 2026.

    Interview
    ‘We have been dispossessed’: Nick Hayes on land rights and a peaceful revolution at the real Toad Hall

    Patrick Barkham
  • Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko photographed in New York

    Interview
    ‘I thought, if I’m going to die, I’m going to write a book first’: Pachinko author Min Jin Lee

    Lisa Allardice
  • 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

Regulars

  • AK Blakemore, with curly hair in a grey sweater, gazes sideways amid foliage

    The books of my life
    AK Blakemore: ‘The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt was extremely silly and bad’

  • Cartoon of Donald Trump riding a polar bear

    Big idea
    Did Trump get one thing right about Greenland?

  • Margaret Atwood.

    Audiobook of the week
    Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood audiobook review – a dryly funny memoir

  • 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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  • Rose Tremain.

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

    Rose Tremain
  • Shortlisted books, Booker prize 2026: L to r, Elizabeth Strout (The Things We Never Say), Marlon James (The Disappearers), M John Harrison (The End of Everything), Douglas Stuart (John of John), Luke Kennard (Black Bag), Rebecca Perry (May We Feed the King).

    Comment
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  • Guardian books editors Liese Spencer, Justine Jordan and Charlotte Northedge

    Booker prize
    ‘Why no female lead characters this year?’: The Guardian’s book team answered your Booker questions

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