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• Book review: Absolution

  This prequel to the Southern Reach trilogy breaks every rule – unsurprising for Jeff VanderMeer, the king of new weird fiction

• Age rebels, unite!

  Meet the older people fighting discrimination. They might teach the rest of us how to live a good life

• The joy of crowds

  Book review: Multitudes - How Crowds Made the Modern World, by Dan Hancox

• Q&A: Richard Dawkins on our immortal genes

  We talk to the renowned evolutionary biologist about "The Genetic Book of the Dead" and how we can read the history of life on Earth through modern genes

• In a word: War

  Michael Rosen explains the history of the word "war"

• Book review: James by Percival Everett

  A reimagining of "Huckleberry Finn" that switches the perspective to that of Jim

• Laugh or you'll cry

  How Richard Herring's health scare confirmed his belief that life is precious – and ridiculous

• A telescope the size of the Earth

  How scientists obtained the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way

• Book review: Battleground Ukraine

  Book review: Battleground Ukraine by Adrian Karatnycky

• Do Swifties really care about the music?

  Stans of Taylor Swift have more in common with football supporters than with your average pop fan