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A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimonies

THE READING LIST: In his new memoir, illustrious New York-based editor Graydon Carter travels back in time to the ‘golden era’ of print magazines, painting a picture of six-figure salaries, petty fights with stars, and carte blanche with the company credit card. Annabel Nugent mourns a bygone era

Night People: How To Be a DJ in 1990s New York is out in September

An honest and intensely moving book about the struggle of parenthood and the power of connection

Season three offers up clues to characters’ psyches – or perhaps their fates – by showing us their holiday reads

Tao Leigh Goffe argues climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism

Collection of detailed drawings launches on Kickstarter today.

Sololand by Hassan Blasim; On the Clock by Claire Baglin; Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas; Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza

Read and contextualised by the poet herself, these gentle gems have an extra tang of immediacy