‘It will renew your faith in humanity’: books to bring comfort in dark times
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‘Why do I have an interest in such horrible things?’: Emmanuel Carrère on the Paris terror attacks trial
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Tom Gauld on the great robbery – cartoon
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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin review – the botanists who defied Hitler
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The Guide #164: The quit list – when to give up on that book, TV show and more
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A Game of Thrones movie may be coming – but do we really need it?
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Project 2025 chief’s book urges ‘burning’ of FBI, New York Times and Boy Scouts
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Roddy Doyle: ‘A PG Wodehouse audiobook made me laugh so much I had to stop the car’
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The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – ingenious cosy crime spoof
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Sales surge for dystopian books after Trump election victory
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‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber
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A good book, peace and quiet and somewhere to sit: who could ask for more? | Adrian Chiles
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‘Political cesspool’: Lincoln, Davis and a battle with echoes for the time of Trump
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The Party by Tessa Hadley review – a daringly old-fashioned novella
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Box Office Poison by Tim Robey review – Hollywood’s fascinating flops
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button review – warm and winsome musical tugs at the heartstrings
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Rachel Cusk wins Goldsmiths prize for novel ‘that turns the world inside out’
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Tell us your comfort reading recommendations
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A Beginner’s Guide to Dying by Simon Boas review – what makes life worth living?
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She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark review – dark delights
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Parents: tell us about the books that got your child into reading
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The Party by Tessa Hadley review – sex and the postwar city
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Dutch publisher to use AI to translate ‘limited number of books’ into English
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Two novels on impact of post-colonial conflict win key French literary awards
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The big idea: is convenience making our lives more difficult?
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The boy who kicked the hornets’ nest: Stieg Larsson’s double life as an anti-far right activist
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Poem of the week: My husband falling by Robert Hamberger
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Paddington in Peru review – you can take the bear out of South America, but think twice before taking him back
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Anfield Road by Chris Shepherd review – from Liverpool with love
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Killing Time by Alan Bennett review – senior moments full of wit and style
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V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère review – a humane and thoughtful testimony of terror and loss
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Welcome to the new era of midlife lust! I need a lie down | Emma Beddington
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Readers reply: Which works of fiction have an optimistic view of the future?
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‘A vivid distillation of a deeply fractured country’: a history of the United States in nine photographs
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Alexei Navalny’s posthumous memoir delivers a stinging rebuke to Putin | Lloyd Green
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‘It’s not just shameful. It is humiliating’: four celebrated authors on their hopes and fears before the 2024 US election
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Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism by Rachel Shabi review – racism by any other name
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Anne Michaels: ‘Language can’t represent brutality’
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On my radar: Noreen Masud’s cultural highlights
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Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Having a stammer was instrumental in making me a writer’
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The Biden Crime Family by Rudy Giuliani review – hapless is as hapless does
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‘I am the industry!’: Keke Palmer on being Hollywood’s queen of content
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Observer Original Photography
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Deborah Levy: ‘A writer’s career is choppy – I was 50 when I found success’
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Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’
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Tom Gauld on the narrator – cartoon
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Gliff by Ali Smith review – reading the signs of crisis
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On Bullfighting by AL Kennedy audiobook review – dances with death
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William Boyd: ‘Fantasy is a genre that I cannot abide any more’
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Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton review – woman meets leveret
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Charli xcx fans rejoice: ‘Brat’ chosen as Collins word of the year
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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October
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The new folk horror: nature is coming to kill you!
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The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade review – comic novel or conceptual art project?
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I had never really considered bad luck before. A brilliant memoir changed all that | Adrian Chiles
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Lower Than the Angels by Diarmaid MacCulloch review – sex and the church
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The Hotel by Daisy Johnson review – chilling tales for Halloween
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Too scary for children! How Halloween used to be – in pictures
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‘We built Brazil’: how descendants of enslaved Africans have helped shape the country
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Nobel and Pulitzer winners denounce ‘dangerous’ Israel cultural boycott
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‘Sex writing feels less cringe now’: are we entering a new era of erotic literature?
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Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – picking up the pieces
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‘You can’t shoot climate change’: Richard Seymour on how far right exploits environmental crisis
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Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer review – a thrilling coda to an otherworldly trilogy
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Breakthrough by William Pao review – the drugs do work
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Small, local book festivals are still thriving | Letters
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Giuliani’s book is silent on $150m award for defamation but noisy on election lies
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Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake review – a writer’s place is not in the kitchen
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‘I was high, drawing my self-portrait in a toaster’: the thrilling return of graphic novelist Charles Burns
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Novelist and poet Paul Bailey dies at 87
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