Books

At 86, the author has finally written a memoir, and it’s everything you’d want it to be

An account of the BBC Bashir scandal shows it could only have happened to a family mired in paranoid plotting

The chancellor recognises the power of getting children to read - now she must convince the parents

Being right or wrong is not as important as what you do in the service of those opinions and how far you are willing to go

Leonard Woolf’s The Barbarians At The Gate warns that tyranny begins not with tanks in the streets, but with compassion being turned off in the public mind

The writer coined the word ‘enshittification’ to describe how useful tech inevitably gets worse. Now he’s turning his sights on AI

Joyce Carol Oates’s brutal dismissal of the world’s richest man has enraged him – and reminded us of her own brilliance

Avant-garde writer Claire Louise Bennett’s new novel is an otherworldly hymn to minutiae

Thirteen years after the ‘punk prayer’ that saw her jailed, Maria Alyokhina’s new book details how the art collective continues the fight against Putin

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From Helsinki to Buenos Aires, one man’s obsession with the art and architecture of our underground railways

Lessing wrote not about poverty, but literary poverty – what happens when eager minds are deprived of books

Middleland is part elegy, part memoir – and reveals the isolation of a politician too thoughtful for his time

Nick Trend’s new book explores the places where Giotto and Leonardo constructed a country’s heritage

This film is a fine addition to Daniel Day-Lewis’s body of work, one of the greatest in cinema

As Cop30 approaches, apocalyptic visions look more everyday than ever

In this age of rage, books restore to us what algorithms have removed – the ability to think as others think

The far right activist’s assassination was the catalyst for an artist drawing a line under his annual memorial project

It’s fun to entertain the possibility of panpsychism – that all the physical things around you have some level of experience. But that doesn’t mean it’s how reality works

The far right tech guru is supposed to be a genius - so why does he misunderstand the books he loves?

The political culture of the west has sunk into a new era of cynicism, contradiction and outright political delusion. But we didn’t fall into it – we were pushed

When philosopher Manon Garcia went to the Gisèle Pelicot trial, what struck her most was the defendants’ sheer lack of remorse. If we can’t change this, she asks, can we live with men?

The LBC presenter suggested Rachel Reeves read a terrible tome about Brexit

Conmen don’t win people over with arguments. Instead, they reflect their dreams back at them – and everyone’s a sucker for that

In his boldest book yet, Ben Myers turns his gaze on the German actor’s infamous 1971 performance and on his own obsession with it

Lucy Easthope, one of the world’s prominent emergency planners, on coping with horror and tragedy

The Artist’s Way is an old self-help book enjoying a revival – because its advice seems tailor-made for our scrolling world

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