Five of the best books about female friendship
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‘These books captured our hearts’: Jacqueline Wilson’s Girls series is back – and millennials are rejoicing
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Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman – time to relax
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That’s me, Mum! The Nigerian author who wrote a book about her children … and joined a publishing revolution
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What a Way to Go by Bella Mackie review – Succession-style satire
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The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke review – a doctor’s remarkable account of an organ transplant
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My passionate love affair with Scotland’s largest island
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The Critic review – Ian McKellen’s poison pen sharpens 30s society cosy-crime drama
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Literary prize drops name of its sponsor from title after protests over Israel arms link
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The Happiness of Dogs by Mark Rowlands review – a masterclass in canine philosophy
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Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – when Olive Kitteridge met Lucy Barton
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Playground by Richard Powers review – the wonder of the oceans
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HBO posts casting call for next-generation Harry Potter TV series
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Elaine by Will Self review – an intense reimagining of the author’s mother’s life
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari review – rage against the machine
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The big idea: how the ‘protege effect’ can help you learn almost anything
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Poem of the week: The Journalist by Grahame Davies
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The Vourdalak review – deviously fun horror is très drôle vampire chamber piece
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Final Cut by Charles Burns review – a book to be read and reread
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux review – savage with a sensitive side
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Want: Sexual Fantasies, edited by Gillian Anderson review – intriguing survey of desire
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Exam Nation by Sammy Wright review – an essential lesson for Britain’s grade-obsessed education system
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‘After Rwanda, I felt I needed philosophical more than psychological help’: journalist Lindsey Hilsum on war and the consolation of poetry
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‘For me, the wig was the key’: how I defied family expectations to become a criminal barrister
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We Solve Murders by Richard Osman review – his new crime-fighting team is another winner
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People Who Like Dogs Like People Who Like Dogs review – a touching tale of the canine-human community
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TikTok meets Tolkien: how the Folio Society attracted gen Z readers
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The week in theatre: G; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; The Real Thing – review
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In brief: Odyssey; Good Nature; Listen for the Lie – review
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Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq review – deepfakes, sex acts and cyber-attacks
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Elizabeth Strout: ‘All ordinary people are extraordinary’
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In fine feather: a museum collection of birds’ eggs and nests – in pictures
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On my radar: Raymond Antrobus’s cultural highlights
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Novelist Rumaan Alam: ‘A lot of people have secret money – it can make you crazy with envy’
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Anne Enright: ‘When I was eight I wanted to be a boy, so that I could be anything I wanted’
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Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Life needs fiction to make it bearable’
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Tom Gauld on the masked librarian – cartoon
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Send us your questions for Jilly Cooper
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The best recent poetry – review roundup
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American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley audiobook review – grit in the face of unspeakable cruelty
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‘She convinces us that magic lives in our world’: VE Schwab on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd review – hugely enjoyable cold war espionage
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Five of the best books translated from Polish
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The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle review – hilarity and hard times
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die by David Hepworth review – living legends
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Fashion with firepower: retro styles from the US Army lookbook – in pictures
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‘Simpler is not better’: George RR Martin blasts House of the Dragon over plot changes
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Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki review – noir debut of forbidden love
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Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power
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This month’s best paperbacks: Stephen King, Anne Michaels and more
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On Leadership by Tony Blair – working to rule
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Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner review – a thrilling novel of ideas
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Catch of the day: poetic images from around the world – in pictures
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More than 180 UK public libraries closed or handed to volunteers since 2016, data shows
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Share your experience of how libraries shaped your life
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The star who was left out in the cold: will Gary Oldman ever play Smiley again?
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Rebus: A Game Called Malice review – Rankin’s fine-dining detective faces corpses between courses
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Crime and thrillers of the month – review
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Strange reflections: how the streets bring us together – in pictures
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Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain review – if the Gallaghers were Scottish
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The big idea: why we’re getting the immigration debate all wrong
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Gladiator rebellions and bread strikes: ancient Rome’s labor unions revealed
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Poem of the week: […] by Fady Joudah
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Munichs by David Peace review – United in guilt and grief
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Truss at 10 by Anthony Seldon review – the leader who made history for all the wrong reasons
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I’m Still Here review – loving family negotiates the horror of Brazil’s military rule
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Precipice by Robert Harris review – the PM and the socialite
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Chernobyl Roulette by Serhii Plokhy review – gripping account of wartime chaos at Ukraine’s nuclear plant
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‘Why did I hurt?’ A writer on grieving the father she never really knew
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The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame review – strikingly imagined voyage into delusion
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