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A professor and a journalist report from the communities along the U.S.-Mexico border in Frontera, a new book from Sergio Chapa.

The hotly anticipated adaptation of David Nicholls' book is set to air in February

Sathnam Sanghera wants to play a game with you. He’s visiting a school where the boys wear “spotless white shirts” and “dark-blue blazers”, there’s a Latin motto, an official crest, a house system, and a stirring school song that contains the lyrics “always play the game!” Is he somewhere in…

Come and Get It is Kiley Reid’s breathlessly anticipated follow-up to her 2020 Booker long-listed triumph Such a Fun Age, which was lauded as an essential and nuanced satire of white privilege, racial microaggressions and gender politics. Published just before the Black Lives Matter movement, it became a key work…

Charlotte Wood reflects on her fellow author and friend’s posthumously published volume of elegiac short stories, We All Lived in Bondi Then

The saddest book I ever read was The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. What made it incredibly sad is the friend that gave me the book had been having an affair with my boyfriend.

A snail in space, dinosaurs on the beach, a fresh take on Jane Eyre, and a kebab-eating incarnation of Otis Redding

Her role in David Nicholls’s One Day looks set to make her a megastar – even though she almost refused to audition. Ambika Mod talks romance, racism and making her 13-year-old self’s dream come true

Writer Zoe Cooper and director Tessa Walker reignite Jane Austen’s early novel with hilarious physical storytelling and a fizzing cast, though the romance sputters out too soon

The Indian writer on Hobsbawm, Russian fairytales – and the complete works of Jackie Collins

Triennale posters from a century of exhibitions at the Milanese institution are the subject of a new book celebrating its history