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5 May 2025

  • a man looking at a camera

    Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary

  • Hotel Festa Qugiela, Okayama.

    We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels

  • a winding river in a landscape with autumn foliage

    Publisher behind hit bilingual poetry book on A470 turns to Welsh rivers

  • Mick Jagger, Shaun Ryder and Kiss’s Paul Stanley.

    ‘I’m burping? At least I didn’t fart!’ Ten things I’ve learned about ageing rockers

  • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Douglas

  • Pathemata by Maggie Nelson review – a writer’s attempt to describe chronic pain

  • Book of the day
    Dream State by Eric Puchner review – an epic tale of paradise lost

  • UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers

  • The G2 interview
    A child on thin ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world-famous father

  • Homefires burning: how a cache of passionate love letters shows the second world war on two fronts

4 May 2025

  • illustration of bookstore

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on the comprehensive bookshop – cartoon

  • Illustration of a robot putting human in a waste paper bin

    The big idea
    Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant

  • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

    Zbig: a bracing life of Carter’s abrasive national security adviser

  • Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll.

    Love Groundhog Day and Russian Doll? These are the novels for you

3 May 2025

  • A composite image of a very old handwritten letter, and a black-and-white image of people walking along flat ground.

    Love endures all, including slavery and the pandemic. I wanted to show how

    In early 2020, separated from my family and friends during the pandemic, I made up my mind to write a love story
  • Kate Potter

    I always wondered what had happened to my missing brother. Could I ever forgive my father for driving him away?

    Growing up, I had so many questions about Marshall, my hippy older sibling who left home and got embroiled with the Manson Family cult. Years later, I embarked on a quest to find out his true story

    • ‘Protest shapes the world’: Rebecca Solnit on the fight back against Trump

    • The week in reviews
      The Four Seasons, A Complete Unknown and Model/Actriz: the week in rave reviews

    • Bookmark this
      ‘Literary scandal’, ‘joke-a-minute’, ‘captivating’: the best Australian books out in May

2 May 2025

  • American author Joan Didion poses outdoors in Berkeley, California, April 1981.

    My friend Joan Didion wouldn’t have wanted her therapy notes to be published

    Letter: Responding to an editorial about the publication of Notes to John, Clare Reihill writes that the late American writer never left anything to chance
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