Books

Chechen human rights investigator Natalia Estemirova defied Russia - and was killed. Now her daughter is keeping her fight alive

Rosamund Pike delivers a quite astonishing performance as a Crown Court Judge wrestling with the legal system's shoddy handling of sexual assault cases

Calleja is part of a new, very different generation of translators, as her experimental memoir makes clear

Eight years after his death, a reissue of Kitchen Confidential still burns with wit and rage

A mission to read the complete works in chronological order reveals unexpected joys and an antidote to theatrical woes

It’s just the latest in a long line of books that weren’t what they seemed

A new book captures the enduring confusion of that moment when love goes away

Lena Dunham’s first major television project since Girls is so much more than the romcom it's billed as

The German-American went from a sniper to an academic with a reputation for sexual frankness

The world of extremism has moved on during the past 100 years – but the core ideas of Hitler’s book have not gone away

Her autobiography shows that the western queen of the far right is almost impossible to pin down

Miffy is Dick Bruna’s most famous creation, selling over 85 million books. But the beloved bunny is only a small part of the story

American journalist John Cassidy explains why those who despise this unstable system seem doomed to failure

A new book of Polish short stories reveals the inventive mischievousness of the nation’s writers

The place where Goethe’s antihero sold his soul has embraced the maxim: ‘When the legend becomes fact, print the legend’

The book accolade turns 30 this year and I have it to thank for many of the incredible women - and novels - in my life

Her nasty new book contains one interesting point – funny the Daily Mail chose to ignore it

American sociologist Musa al-Gharbi thinks woke protesters are sincere – but they’re equally committed to being wealthy

Thirty years after it was first published to indifference, Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men is a literary sensation

A new book suggests that we should appreciate flashes of genius without believing that they make a person uniquely special

The writer shared a deep, collaborative friendship with his kindred spirit Adolfo Bioy Casares, who became his literary double

From the Pilgrims to Star Trek, every promised land ends up looking suspiciously like the one we left behind

The hammer of high interest rates is no longer the way to deal with pressure on prices

Richard Drax’s family built their riches on Barbados’s most infamous plantation. He says it’s all just history

Serious books are being written about the pop icons. But do we risk letting light in on the magic?

How did an inquiry into the laws of nature produce a form of technology capable of annihilating civilisation?

The philosopher’s 1981 book After Virtue suggested that modern morality is fragmented and rootless – an argument that still stands today

Lewis’s new book, The Genius Myth, skewers rebel innovators who come to believe they can do no wrong. Remind you of anyone?

Atheists have a simple answer: it is evidence that God doesn’t exist, while believers say the gift of human free will brings with it the possibility of doing evil

It’s possible to feel the deepest sympathy for Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and still be appalled by the cover-up of his cognitive decline

First, he took over the social media platform – then the social media platform took over him

A book that finds the joy in Europe’s lines of division