Books

Once one of America’s most wanted men, Ahmed al-Sharaa is now feted by Trump and western politicians. But for how long?

Peter Barron goes in search of The Last Wolf, the new Nobel Laureate’s shaggy tale of a visit to the beautiful but remote region of Extremadura

An author hides behind a pseudonym to invent 75 reasons to celebrate Britain’s slow collapse

Jung Chang on her family’s painful history with the communist regime – and her sequel to the bestselling Wild Swans

A new book collects the best of the world’s toilets – because even in an age of division, everyone needs somewhere to sit down

Ebs Burnough’s new documentary, Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, wants you to believe that we have more desire to communicate than social media will lead you to believe

In his spellbinding novels, Hungary’s new Nobel laureate turns despair into resistance

Fact or fiction, O'Hagan's use of language always delivers on both wit and sheer beauty. His latest book, On Friendship, is no exception

The master’s new 1930s-set novel Shadow Ticket feels less like fiction and more like breaking news

Forty years of news photos from the Reuters agency capture a world on fire – and makes a compelling case for the future of photojournalism

As Trump tries to claim the arts for his elite, the Black feminist trailblazer makes the case for them belonging to everyone

Research shows that listening to a novel is just as good for our brains as leafing through one. Now sales are outperforming every other sector of publishing

Moisés Naím’s new book unpacks how these snake-oil shysters deceive the public

The hands on the cover of the late author's novel Riders moved northwards over the years

The former professional wrestler has proved himself a screen performer to be taken very seriously indeed

The journalist rubbished as ‘absurd’ racism allegations which he himself first reported

As a child in the National Front’s heyday, fear made HOPE not Hate’s CEO try to conceal his origins. Now he says tensions are worse than they were in 1979

A book that reveals shifting attitudes between sympathy and exclusion in society’s treatment of learning disability

A new book on the role of the whips office raises an exasperating question about the role of politicians

The Eat, Pray, Love author is back with a shocking memoir that reveals far more about her glib manipulations than she understands

This year’s long list boasts parental bonds, family dynamics and an entry I cannot get my head around

Today’s worldwide boom follows decades of resistance – but the battle for equal status is far from won

Winnie M Li’s novel brought back painful memories of sibling resentment and hurt

Solarpunk began as a sci-fi vision of a beautiful, sustainable planet. Now it inspires Hollywood movies and real-life tech. Can it change the world?

Jonathan Buckley’s female protagonist only exists to validate the male characters around her. She’s utterly unbelievable

In What We Can Know, our greatest living novelist sees the UK slip beneath the waves – and looks for light in a drowned world

Should I have felt betrayed when I discovered the autobiography I’d read was mostly fiction?

A wave of female writers use pitch-black fairytales to address the evil in Argentina’s past

Every new book by Tom Cox is a treat and his third novel, Everything Will Swallow You, is no exception

Four generations of women inhabit a landscape of wolves, fascists and devils in the Catalan writer’s haunting novel

As his own star rises, global noir writer Nicolás Obregón is raging at the state of the world

A book that collects the dreams of Germans – Jews and gentiles alike – during the 1930s