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  • A previously unpublished photograph of Harper Lee.

    Harper Lee
    ‘A glimpse of genius’: what do unpublished stories found in Harper Lee’s apartment tell us about the To Kill a Mockingbird author?

    Casey Cep
    When she died, the writer left behind a cache of notebooks and manuscripts. Her biographer reveals what they tell us about her unlikely rise to literary stardom
  • Black British book festival

    Festivals
    ‘We don’t celebrate Black creativity enough’: why the Black British book festival is bigger than ever

    Emma Loffhagen
  • The Great Mosque of Gaza reduced to rubble.

    Gaza
    ‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins

    William Dalrymple
  • Baek Se-hee

    News
    Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, dies aged 35

  • Joelle Taylor

    The books of my life
    Joelle Taylor: ‘I picked up The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a swoon of nine-year-old despair’

    Joelle Taylor
  • Evan Dando in 1993.

    Book of the day
    Rumours of My Demise by Evan Dando review – eye-popping tales of drugs and unpredictability

    Alexis Petridis
  • Orkney Islands In The Killing Stones

    Crime and thrillers roundup
    The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

    Laura Wilson

What to read

  1. Composite image for Best Paperbacks September 2025

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Jonathan Coe, Tessa Hadley and more

  2. Claire-Louise Bennett, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Salman Rushdie, Patricia Lockwood and RF Kuang

    Autumn reads
    From a new Thomas Pynchon novel to a memoir by Margaret Atwood: the biggest books of the autumn

  3. Book covers

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in September

  • Oscar Wilde 1882 American tour.

    Biography books
    After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal

    Matthew Sturgis
  • Yanis Varoufakis in Aegina, Greece.

    History books
    Raise Your Soul by Yanis Varoufakis review – an intimate history of Greece

    Pratinav Anil
  • Werner Herzog.

    Philosophy books
    The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog review – profound, or just a prank?

  • Russian protest band Pussy Riot.

    History books
    Motherland by Julia Ioffe review – the matriarchs who built mother Russia

    Viv Groskop
  1. Finding the perfect match with nail color palette

    Fiction
    Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa review – behind the scenes at the nail salon

    Sarah Moss
  2. Abandoned ferris wheel ride in Chornobyl.

    Science fiction roundup
    The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

    Lisa Tuttle
  3. Seamus Heaney in 1979.

    Poetry
    The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

    Philip Terry
  4. picture of two people kissing

    Fiction
    The Decadence by Leon Craig review – queer haunted house tale fails to chill

  1. Bear’s Nap by Emily Gravett

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  2. illustration of

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  3. A detail from put Your Shoes On by Polly Dunbar.

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  4. Wild by Katya Balen, illustrated by Gill Smith.

    Children's books
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  1. Chris Kraus at home in Los Angeles.

    Interview
    ‘I’m going to write about all of it’: author Chris Kraus on success, drugs and I Love Dick

  2. Batool Abu Akleen in Gaza.

    Interview
    ‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza

  3. SenLinYu

    Fantasy books
    The fanfiction written on a notes app that’s become a bestseller – with a seven-figure film deal

Regulars

  • Joelle Taylor

    The books of my life
    Joelle Taylor: ‘I picked up The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a swoon of nine-year-old despair’

  • Elia Barbieri - The Guardian Saturday -  4 October 2025 - Were women more emancipated in the deep past  PRINTING-01

    Big idea
    Was prehistory a feminist paradise?

  • Nikita Gill.

    Audiobook of the week
    Hekate by Nikita Gill review – the ancient Greek goddess works magic in this retelling

  • hills over Port Antonio, Jamaica in 1891.

    Poem of the week
    Poem of the week: My Mother by Claude McKay

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    Essay
    Sarah Perry: ‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children'

    Sarah Perry
  3. László Krasznahorkai, pictured gazing out of window, in Madrid in 2018.

    Nobel prize in literature
    Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai

    Colm Tóibín

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