Books

What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review – drama that is all in the dialogue

Not a huge amount happens in this tale of illicit fortysomething love, but Jacobson’s writing is so good it hardly matters

John Self

21, Jan, 2024 @9:00 AM

‘No one should have more than €10m’: the author of Limitarianism on why the super-rich need to level down radically

Prof Ingrid Robeyns has spent a decade studying wealth and ethics and says that limits are essential if we want to eradicate poverty and protect social cohesion and the planet

Tim Adams

21, Jan, 2024 @9:00 AM

Judgement at Tokyo by Gary J Bass review – of war crimes and punishment

A detailed and sharply observed account of the 1946-1948 Tokyo trials – proceedings that were implicitly racist and hypocritical, and with a prosecution team that was led by a ‘blundering alcoholic’

Neal Ascherson

21, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM

‘Every school should have a library’: Philip Pullman calls for new UK laws

The novelist has joined fellow children’s writers Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson in a plea to ministers for action

Vanessa Thorpe, Arts and Media correspondent

21, Jan, 2024 @6:00 AM

Helen Oyeyemi: ‘I like other humans mediated through art’

The novelist on why her adopted home, Prague, is so hard to write about, her regard for style over subject matter, and taking sick days from school to read Ali Smith

Anthony Cummins

20, Jan, 2024 @6:00 PM

‘There is joy, and there is rage’: the new generation of novelists writing about motherhood

From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a mother

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

20, Jan, 2024 @11:00 AM

John Lewis review: superb first biography of a civil rights hero

With In Search of the Beloved Community, Raymond Arsenault delivers a fitting tribute to the late Democrat from Georgia

Michael Henry Adams

20, Jan, 2024 @10:00 AM

‘Money runs our lives’: novelist Kiley Reid on education, excess and what makes us squirm

Following her bestselling debut Such a Fun Age, Reid has turned to campus life for her new book Come and Get It. She talks class, money and why becoming a mother has made her a better writer

Rebecca Liu

20, Jan, 2024 @9:00 AM

Blood by Jen Gunter review – busting myths about menstruation

The gynaecologist known for criticising Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop is back with an empowering guide to periods

Katy Guest

20, Jan, 2024 @7:30 AM

Good Material by Dolly Alderton audiobook review – a funny account of millennial love

Doctor Who’s Arthur Darvill and Napoleon’s Vanessa Kirby narrate a warm, witty portrait of thirtysomething middle-class life

Fiona Sturges

19, Jan, 2024 @12:00 PM

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Here in the Dark by Alexis Soloski; House Woman by Adorah Nworah; Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody; Helle & Death by Oskar Jensen; The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

Laura Wilson