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  • illustration of man relaxing in thumb-down symbol

    The big idea
    Why you should embrace rejection

    Farrah Jarral
    From building resilience to boosting artistic creativity, there are unexpected benefits to being rebuffed
  • Jeff Kinney with his creation Greg Heffley.

    Interview
    Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney: ‘I’ve sold 300m books. What’s next?’

    Stuart Heritage
  • picture of person reading a book, resisting being guided by virtual companion

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on the rewards of enhanced reading – cartoon

  • Fatima Bhutto.

    Interview
    Fatima Bhutto on her abusive relationship: ‘I thought it could never happen to me’

    Nosheen Iqbal
  • Susan Choi.

    The books of my life
    Susan Choi: ‘For so long I associated Dickens with unbearable Christmas TV specials’

  • The typewritten draft of On the Road, which was later revised and published in 1957.

    News
    Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned

  • Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in The Time Traveler's Wife.

    News
    Sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife to be published this autumn

What to read

  1. Composite image for Best Paperbacks January 2026

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Anne Tyler, Jason Allen-Paisant and more

  2. DS The Guardian books cover web

    2025 in Culture
    The best books of 2025

  3. Covers of Ethan Frome, My Phantoms and Speak, Memory.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: George Saunders, Erin Somers and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in January

Non-fiction reviews

  • David Bowie performing in 1999.

    Biography books
    David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God by Peter Ormerod review – the making of a modern saint

    Simon Critchley
  • Hwang Sunwoo (left) and Kim Hana.

    Memoir
    Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo review – the Korean bestseller about platonic partnership

    Tiffany Watt Smith
  • Gayle Newland in 2017.

    Biography books
    The Bed Trick by Izabella Scott review – a bizarre story of sexual duplicity

    Olivia Laing
  • $100 bills

    Economics books
    Everybody Loves Our Dollars by Oliver Bullough review – a jaw-dropping exposé of money laundering

    John Simpson

Fiction & poetry reviews

  1. Find the wild puma in the nature habitat. Mountain lion in the nature winter mountain rock habitat, Torres del Paine NP in Chile. Wildlife nature in Patagonia, South America. Puma in snow, cold winter

    Fiction
    The Puma by Daniel Wiles review – a visceral tale of cyclical violence

    Caleb Klaces
  2. Ali Smith.

    Fiction
    Glyph by Ali Smith review – bearing witness to the war in Gaza

    Keiran Goddard
  3. Floods in Kolkata in A Guardian and a Thief

    Fiction
    A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar review – survival in a climate-ravaged Kolkata

    Keshava Guha
  4. Old castle kitchen with a staged medieval food display on a wooden table.

    Fiction
    May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry review – a dazzling puzzle-box of a debut

    Melissa Harrison

Children's and YA books

  1. The Good Deed Dogs by Emma Chichester Clark.

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  2. picture of a mouse in bed

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  3. The Ocean at Night by Isabelle Simler

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  4. Bear’s Nap by Emily Gravett

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams

Interviews

  1. Madeleine Gray

    Interview
    Green Dot author Madeleine Gray: ‘Chosen family is big in the queer community’

    Rebecca Liu
  2. Karen Solie, winner of the TS Eliot poetry award

    Interview
    ‘There is a sense of things careening towards a head’: TS Eliot prize winner Karen Solie

  3. George Saunders

    Interview
    ‘​How do you really tell the truth about this moment?’: George Saunders on ghosts, mortality and Trump’s America

Regulars

  • Susan Choi.

    The books of my life
    Susan Choi: ‘For so long I associated Dickens with unbearable Christmas TV specials’

  • illustration of man relaxing in thumb-down symbol

    Big idea
    Why you should embrace rejection

  • Hollie McNish.

    Audiobook of the week
    Virgin by Hollie McNish audiobook review – myth-shattering poetry about purity and sex

  • detail from Pauline as Daphne Fleeing from Apollo by Robert Lefevre.

    Poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Song by Lady Mary Chudleigh

You may have missed

  1. Mark Haddon and his sister, Fiona, in 1968.

    Extract
    ‘To say I was the favourite would imply I was liked’: Mark Haddon on a loveless childhood

  2. Julian Barnes.

    Julian Barnes
    Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked!

    John Self
  3. An illustration of a man opening a giant book like a doorway into green countryside.

    Self-help
    The self-help books that really work

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