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  • A small silhouetted man speaks charismatically at a podium inside a giant shark's open jaws

    The big idea
    Why you should treat charisma as a red flag

    Alex Curmi
    Today’s crop of smooth talkers tap directly into a specific evolutionary vulnerability. Here’s how to defend yourself
  • Joe Dunthorne.

    Joe Dunthorne
    Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back

    Joe Dunthorne
  • Helen Garner smiles gently, standing before a tree trunk outdoors

    Interview
    ‘Being hated is very bracing’: Helen Garner on surviving three marriages and being called a ‘rotten feminist’

    Emma Brockes
  • Book covers

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: Ian Rankin, Louise Kennedy and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in October

  • Phlippa Gregory.

    The books of my life
    Philippa Gregory: ‘I read 100 of the 18th century’s most popular novels – the perfect author’s apprenticeship’

  • Barbi Markovic, author

    Translated fiction roundup
    The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

    John Self
  • Aea Varfis-van Warmelo

    Book of the day
    Attention Seeking Behaviour by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo review – a slippery liar’s tale

    Aimée Walsh

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

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: Ian Rankin, Louise Kennedy and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in October

  • A tactical military exercise in Tainan, Taiwan, 2026

    Politics books
    War Is Interested in You by Gideon Rachman review – are we on the brink of world war three?

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

    Autobiography and memoir
    Under Fire by Humza Yousaf – a deeply affecting story of being stranded in Gaza

    Fiona Sturges
  • 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
  • Jude Cook.

    Fiction
    Time Being by Jude Cook review – a smart existential tale of midlife

    James Smart
  • Author Yiyun Li

    Fiction
    Music Against the Night by Yiyun Li review – a virtuosic interrogation of the power of art

    Kevin Power
  • Laleh Khadivi.

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

    Shahidha Bari
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Regulars

  • Phlippa Gregory.

    The books of my life
    Philippa Gregory: ‘I read 100 of the 18th century’s most popular novels – the perfect author’s apprenticeship’

  • A small silhouetted man speaks charismatically at a podium inside a giant shark's open jaws

    Big idea
    Why you should treat charisma as a red flag

  • Maggie Gyllenhaal.

    Audiobook of the week
    Bram Stoker’s Dracula audiobook review – cinematic horror with an A-list cast

  • Anne Carson

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Anne Carson

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  • Sales of Sally Rooney’s books have been halted in the UK over her support for Palestine Action

    Feature
    ‘It feels quite frightening’: readers rush to snap up Sally Rooney books as stocks dwindle amid Palestine Action ban

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    Essay
    ‘Medieval romance overflowed with sexually active fairies’: the surprisingly long roots of romantasy

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