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Carolina Unzelte
What to read to understand Venezuela
Sat 17 Jan 2026
Rutger Bregman
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K Biswas
Will this book make you less racist?
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Hillary Clinton to the Beatles
Thu 15 Jan 2026
John Bew
Inside the White House situation room
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Lucy Popescu
Daniyal Mueenuddin and the making of 20th-century Pakistan
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Tim Adams
Ian Leslie: ‘The Beatles are nice people to hang out with’
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Stephanie Merritt
Love, loss and Salman Rushdie
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Kitty Empire
Chapter books of the month: adventurers assemble
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Laura Cumming
The fierce life of Louise Bourgeois
Wed 14 Jan 2026
Andrew McMillan
The Sunday Poem: burning car by Andrew McMillan
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Anthony Cummins
Julian Barnes’s search for an ending
Sat 10 Jan 2026
Megan Nolan
Writers’ rules and how to break them
Fri 9 Jan 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Caroline Crampton
A love letter to romance fiction
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from graphic novels to books on Bowie
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Killian Fox
The Crystal Vase by Astrid Goldsmith
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Alexander Larman
What to read to understand Bowie
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Gerald Murnane: ‘I think of my mind as a grassland or prairie’
Wed 7 Jan 2026
Erica Wagner
The long history of American overreach
Wed 7 Jan 2026
Blake Morrison
Pressed by Blake Morrison
Sun 4 Jan 2026
Jade Cuttle
Confessions of a parish priest
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Sophie McBain
The women who fought for justice over child custody
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Pelican Child by Joy Williams
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Alex Preston
Fiction to look out for in 2026
Thu 1 Jan 2026
Erica Wagner
Nonfiction to look out for in 2026
Thu 1 Jan 2026
The Sunday Poem: Green by Josephine Balmer
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Ben Okri
Scratching the Sky
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Killian Fox
Portrait of the artist as a Hollywood icon
Wed 24 Dec 2025
Olivia Ovenden
Anne Enright: ‘I’m constitutionally averse to misogyny’
Wed 24 Dec 2025
John Self
William Maxwell’s great American novel
Tue 23 Dec 2025
Erica Wagner
The downfall of David Walliams can only be good news for children’s books
Sat 20 Dec 2025
David Barnett
In search of the ghosts of Christmas past
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Caitlin O'Kane
What to read to understand wit
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Patricia Lockwood to Henry Kissinger
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Lord by Soraya Antonius
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
The 25 best books of the century so far
Thu 18 Dec 2025
John Bew
The world according to Henry Kissinger
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Lyse Doucet
The sisterhood that saved Afghanistan’s female judges
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Ian Thomson
The great Italian escape
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Underhill by Lavinia Greenlaw
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Richard Ovenden
In defence of pedantry
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Paula Byrne
What to read to understand Jane Austen
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Elizabeth Kolbert to Tom Paulin
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Kathleen Jamie
Elizabeth Kolbert’s alarm call
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Lisa O’Kelly
James Fox: ‘The crafts are always revived in times of crisis’
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Sean O’Hagan
Tom Paulin’s exile state of mind
Wed 10 Dec 2025
Matthew Bishop
Lessons of the 1929 Wall Street crash
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
Introducing The Observer’s Sunday poem
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Simon Armitage
The Overload by Simon Armitage
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Luke Turner
Lament for a lost London
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Lucy Popescu
What it means to be German
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Christopher Frayling
What to read to understand vampires
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Eimear McBride
Return to the Jon Fosse universe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Chris Power
The Future Loves You by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Jonathan Bate
The infernal world of Christopher Marlowe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Christopher Marlowe to Joe Sacco
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Killian Fox
Joe Sacco: ‘I can’t turn away from what’s going on in Gaza’
Wed 3 Dec 2025
Sir Richard Lambert
The man behind Palantir’s military-industrial empire
Tue 2 Dec 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: We Live Here Now by CD Rose
Fri 28 Nov 2025
The Observer
The best children’s books of 2025
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Tom Gatti
A Christmas books special
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘I’ve seen a whole system collapse and fade away’
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Writers choose their 2025 favourites
Thu 27 Nov 2025
The Observer
The Observer’s books of the year 2025
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Alice Hunt
The double life of George Downing
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Val McDermid
What to read to understand winter
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Imogen Carter
Picture books of the month: where the wild things are
Sat 22 Nov 2025
Howard Jacobson
Milan Kundera in the age of censure
Fri 21 Nov 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle
Thu 20 Nov 2025
Kitty Empire
Is Taylor Swift a great poet?
Thu 20 Nov 2025
Alex Clark
Jeanette Winterson’s story factory
Wed 19 Nov 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Jeanette Winterson to Taylor Swift
Wed 19 Nov 2025
Jude Rogers
TS Eliot’s 20th-century nightmare
Tue 18 Nov 2025
Jade Cuttle
Digging for the dead
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
Confessions of a reluctant bookseller
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Simon Winchester
What to read to understand the weather
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Rowan Moore
The houses that England built
Sat 15 Nov 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu
Sat 15 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
Emmanuel Carrère on 10 years since the Paris attacks
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Marina Wheeler
Lady Hale’s rescue plan for the legal system
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
David Szalay: ‘If you want to be a proper writer, you have to deal with the sordid’
Wed 12 Nov 2025
Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively on the best children’s books of all time
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Penelope Lively
Why children’s books matter
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
Why David Szalay’s Flesh won the Booker prize
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Erica Wagner
Secrets of a Booker prize judge
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Richard Ovenden
How to survive an information crisis
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Hannah Rose Woods
Ferdinand Mount’s sentimental revolutions
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Ann Morgan
What to read to understand quests
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Fiona Noble
Young adult fiction of the month: spellbinding stories
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Dog Days by Emily LaBarge
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Lynn Barber
The redemption of Anthony Hopkins
Thu 6 Nov 2025
Olivia Ovenden
The last days of Pasolini
Thu 6 Nov 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Helen Garner: ‘Writers need to have their arse kicked around the block’
Wed 5 Nov 2025
Philippe Sands
Inside the mind of Serbia’s ‘Madam War Criminal’
Wed 5 Nov 2025
Alex Preston
Pussy Riot’s guide to Putin’s Russia
Tue 4 Nov 2025
Erica Wagner
The book of Margaret Atwood
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Andrew Anthony
Jonathan C Slaght: ‘I don’t like bears. They’re vindictive’
Sat 1 Nov 2025
