Books

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

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