Five years after winning the Booker for Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart reflects on the pressures of being a prize winner, the queer canon, the politics of dialect, and how the arts have become less acce...

The current El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years. It will add extra heat into an atmosphere in which temperatures are already rising rapidly, and supercharge extreme weather eve...

In his new novel The End of Everything, the grandmaster of speculative fiction confronts the limits of human understanding.

Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 13th annual Kirkus Prize, which awards $50,000 to “books of exceptional merit” in three categories: …

Rethinking our approach to movement-building and societal change, inspired by Octavia Butler...

The Innocent Party is the fifth book I’ve read by the British writer Celia Dale, and I’m starting to wonder whether her novels fall into two distinct but closely related groups. Firstly, we have th…

The nitty-gritty: A weird, magical story with nods to Greek mythology, Find Me Where It Ends is full of raw emotion and thoughtful reflections on life and death. “As it moved, Antigone saw proof ag…

In the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu town, strange happenings are common. And the local government secondary school is teeming with supernatural entities. For Thamarai, an outsider considered ...

A sentient slime mold makes the inhabitants of Pompeii the subject of their academic dissertation.

Tatiana Schlote-Bonne's What Feeds Below sends two teen guides into a deadly underground ecosystem of carnivorous plants, fungal infection, body horror, and buried secrets.

The sex writing threatens to throw the novel off-kilter, but there are rich rewards in this tale of music and middle-aged compromises

Only 150 of 2,189 titles published in UK for young children last year focused on minority ethnic, disabled or neurodivergent characters

Podcast Episode · The New Society | culture from the New Statesman · 26 September · 51min

Imagine the UK with a 20-year investment plan, with green homes and fast transport. We already have the tools to make it happen, says Green party politician Jamie Driscoll

“There may come a time where we are one of the only, if not the only, option for the nation.”

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

An interview with Louise Erdrich about her new collection, "Python's Kiss."

This tale of a 60s college dropout driving across the US to avoid being sent to Vietnam is committed to both readerly pleasure and literary artifice

Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘London Falling’ and Anand Gopal’s ‘Days of Love and Rage’ are joined by four works of biography, from Alexander the Great to James Baldwin

Six writers are in contention for the £10,000 books prize, which celebrates fiction that ‘breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form’

A journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach

This tale of broken hearts and broken people moves from the Troubles of 70s Northern Ireland to an unforgiving London of squats and payphones

From the Beatles and the World Cup to racism and homophobia, the latest instalment in Kynaston’s series captures a society in the throes of change

Her Troubles-set debut became a hit TV series starring Gillian Anderson. Now the novelist has returned to her teen years for a follow-up. She talks about her journey from chef to author, and how her c...

Is the price of stability necessarily the loss of freedom? Two possible future worlds are linked in the new novel from the author of Station Eleven

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

This revelatory history shows just how deeply embedded slavery is in the foundations of modern Britain

This recklessly ambitious doorstopper follows the 16 days of England’s medieval uprising from a vast array of viewpoints, and in startlingly rich prose

China Miéville’s first solo novel in over a decade is part Lovecraft, part le Carré—and quintessentially weird.

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some great new paperbacks, from an epic multigenerational saga by a Booker winner to a biography of an iconic Victorian poet