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  • Book review: Still Pictures by Janet Malcolm

    True to form, Malcolm's memoir questions the genre itself

  • Why are we still obsessed with witches?

    Samira Ahmed explores the witch-lit revival, reviewing "Weyward" by Emilia Hart, "Now She Is Witch" by Kirsty Logan, "The Witches of Vardo" by Anya Bergman, and "The Ruin of All Witches" by Malcolm Gaskill

  • Book review: Cocoon

    This epic novel is a stunning evocation of China’s recent past, after the Cultural Revolution, and a poignant examination of how events reverberate through the decades

  • The bikers' bible

    Quality matters more than quantity, as Robert Pirsig - the grandfather of motorcycle travel literature - teaches us

  • Youthsick blues

    The everyday tragedy of ageing is inescapable in Dylan's latest book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song".

  • Book review: Haramacy

    Edited by Zahed Sultan, Dhruva Balram and Tara Joshi, "Haramacy" is a play on the Arabic word "haram", meaning forbidden or indecent, and the English “pharmacy”.

  • Q&A: Adam Rutherford

    We talk to Adam Rutherford about his latest book “Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics”.

  • Book review: Escape

    As a millennial, Marie Le Conte grew up alongside the internet. Her memoir-essay charts the journey of what has been gained and lost.

  • Funnier than fiction

    "The Rehearsal" and "How To with John Wilson" mess with our sense of reality, and audiences love it.

  • Book review: Best of Friends

    Kamila Shamsie’s exposure of the UK’s immigration system is acute and damning.