Books

AA Milne’s books are cosy and cutesy – to some, nauseatingly so. But are they all bad?

Patriot is a tapestry of bilious grievance from a politician whose star is very much declining

The internet is full of advice on how to look like you’ve read a book when you haven’t. But why cheat yourself of the things that make life worth living?

The former PM’s new book might have a point about cooperation, but it’s both turgid and naive

Emily St John Mandel’s new novel Exit Party is set in a future of mistrust, surveillance and civil war. So why is she still optimistic?

The Dodge City novelist set out expecting a hostile, divided country. What happened next surprised him

Despite swirling rumours, no charges had been filed against Sean Combs by mid-May 2024. Then a shocking video and a damning article changed everything

David Kynaston’s new book shows how the Beatles, Carnaby Street and Geoff Hurst obscured years of decline, racism and repression

It’s different to last time. But just because it doesn’t look the same, doesn’t mean it’s any less fanatical, or sinister

Min Jin Lee’s long-awaited book third book exposes the sacrifices and betrayals that drive family ambition

Åsne Seierstad’s extraordinary Never Say War exposes the violence and indifference at the heart of Russia

Doireann Ní Ghríofa resurrects the forgotten women of a Cork asylum in a mesmerising work of literary séance

Alex Gibney’s documentary Knife shows the ‘wounded happiness’ of a writer returning in triumph to the venue where he was nearly killed

A new biography reveals his mentor Roy Cohn as a man who turned corruption and cruelty into big business

The Windsors were never quite posh enough for our school. Now Harry and William are getting ready for a different kind of class war

A new documentary lets Victoria Rose and other doctors describe the horrors they have witnessed

Physicist Carlo Rovelli’s new book says quantum mechanics has demolished one of our most basic assumptions about the world we live in

The second world war forged our moral order. As memories fade and the truth is twisted, that is falling apart – and no one knows what will replace it

Nick Tyrone’s badly timed book The Rise Of Reform is full of verdicts that veer from the generous to the gullible

Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here depicted a future US in which a fascist came to power promising a $5,000 yearly stipend

The latest far right theory turns compassion into weakness and cruelty into common sense

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism explores the religious fanatics and tech billionaires who see catastrophe as an opportunity

Natasha Walter’s Feminism for a World on Fire has convinced me to leave my lane - it’s the most vital book of the year

Putin wants an all-out attack on Ukraine's culture - and on the things that make life bearable in horrific times

Fact and fiction blend in a gripping and brutal tale of war and ambition

A new book reveals that second-hand stores are struggling to cope with a deluge of thin, synthetic ultra-fast fashion

James Marriott's new book warns about the dark consequences of a new, post-literate age

Non-fiction books aren’t fact-checked any more – and no one has a perfect memory, even of their own lives. So what the hell do publishers expect will happen?

The novelist’s portrait of a movie star raises unsettling questions about privacy and truth

The writer tried to embrace the new tech of his age – and ended up imagining ghostly ‘Duplicates’ of humans endlessly churning out text

In an exclusive extract from Paul Mason’s new book, Reds: A Global History of Communism, he warns that, in the struggle between democracy and dictatorship, the entire history of the left is now in play

The brilliant novel Dear Monica Lewinsky made me think back on a summer on a movie set with men who knew better than to cross the line