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  • Patrick Freyne

    ‘Nobody is pretending to like my work because of my fresh-faced good looks’: the pros of being a debut novelist at 51

    There are some advantages to being an older debutant, including knowing what it’s like to fail and not having your new novel overshadowed by early literary promise
  • Lil Nas X in a silver beaded bodysuit and mask with white pearls and jewels covering the face

    Flamboyance by Jack Parlett review – a serious study of the spectacular

    What does it mean to push the boat out, and can peacocking be more than just a beautiful gesture?
  • Roddy Doyle with glasses and a grey beard smiles in front of a building with arched windows

    Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates

    Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in attempt to widen access to quality fiction
  • Bill Jordan wrote more than 30 books on social work practice, social policy, and political and economic theory

    Other lives
    Bill Jordan obituary

    Other lives: Social worker and lecturer on social policy
  • Zoe Williams

    double quotation markI have found the perfect book group – we discuss problematic text messages

    Zoe Williams
    My friends and I were keen to meet regularly, but couldn’t agree on what to read. Then we found an excellent solution, writes Zoe Williams

    • Money whisperers
      ‘I want to be other people’s cautionary tale’: how do you financially prepare for a parent’s death?

    • ‘Wear something that makes you feel silly!’ Can Austin Kleon’s tips put the spark back in my life?

    • Book of the day
      A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce review – are we raising a bookless generation?

  • Ruth Artmonsky at home in Covent Garden, London, in 2016.

    Other lives
    Ruth Artmonsky obituary

  • TGbooks237lies - Sat Mag Books cartoon

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on book lies – cartoon

  • A woman in a New York City diner at night.

    ‘Far right groups prey on it’: Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness

  • Elia Barbieri - The Guardian Saturday - 6th June 2026 - Should we ditch the idea of three square meals PRINT

    The big idea
    Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?

  • Air-raid alerts and frontline memoirs: Kyiv hosts literary festival amid war

  • Search for lesbian grandmothers who inspired children’s book

  • 100 best novels
    Readers’ top 100 novels of all time

    After authors and critics chose their top 100 novels, we asked for your favourites. From Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, 3,000 readers cast their votes. Here are the titles that made your list – topped by a new entry at number 1
  • ReadersVote 5-4

    100 best novels
    Move over Middlemarch! Readers’ top 100 novels

    After critics and authors picked their top 100 novels of all time, we asked readers to choose their favourites. Thousands of votes came in from around the world ... which books did you choose that were missing from the original list, and what has pushed George Eliot off the top spot?• See the top 100 here
  • A topless man with tattoos

    The week in reviews
    From Cape Fear to Zoh Amba: the week in rave reviews

    Javier Bardem is at his menacing best in a wild remake of the psychological thriller, and the jazz sax maven surprises with raw country rock spirituality. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
  • A person in a tan shirt stands facing colorful artwork by Murugiah with geometric shapes and floral patterns

    The Guardian view on the UK’s first centre for illustration: visual literacy, and the sheer joy of images, matter

    Editorial: A national institution for this overlooked artform shows it is finally getting the recognition it deserves
  • Marjane Satrapi stands next to a red wall with vertical stripes

    double quotation markMarjane Satrapi captured profound human emotions – and paved the way for a generation

    Mana Neyestani
    The graphic novelist had a remarkable gift for visual storytelling, in the phenomenon that was Persepolis and beyond. Many of us owe our careers to the space she created, says Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani
  • A worn paperback book of Middlemarch by George Eliot with a classical painting on the cover

    100 best novels
    Novel ways to master reading books

    Letters: Malcolm Bellamy on how he is finally getting through Middlemarch. Also letters from Roger Osborne and Roz Connery
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