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Best books of 2025: our experts share their picks

The end of the year means holiday celebrations, summer breaks … and for us, one important thing: best books lists. We asked 35 expert readers for their favourite picks, ranging from novelists to anthropologists, scientists to criminologists – and experts in politics, publishing and philosophy. The only rule? The book…

The Conversation

Why are men giving us the collective ick?

Boyfriends are embarrassing, shopping is undignified – even male gynaecologists are ‘performative’. Why have we become so cringed out by mankind?

Evening Standard

Collegiate style is the hottest trend for autumn

IN FOCUS: As blazers and oversized shirting dominate the trend circuit in homage to the late Diane Keaton’s signature look, Olivia Petter examines how the style set is taking its cues from the classroom this autumn

The Independent UK

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Friday essay: tai chi helped me navigate grief and loss. Its story spans ancient China to Lou Reed

Between the end of a summer that had been going on too long and the beginning of a too-warm autumn that would crank up my climate change anxiety to ten, I joined a tai chi class.

The Conversation

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: why September is an ideal time to update your look

This is a powerful month for fashion, and an ideal time to try a waistcoat, wider trousers, a shorter skirt or a splash of saturated colour

The Guardian - UK

Streaming Music Isn't a Free Market. It's a Regulated Monopoly.

Rock legend David Lowery draws on his decades in the music industry to explain how government-imposed licensing fees and price controls helped streaming platforms flourish while eroding artist rights and income.

Reason

20 Life-Changing Books That Will Inspire You and Transform Your Perspective

From classics by Joan Didion and Toni Morrison to recent best-sellers.

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“Jim would come in too drunk to sing decently. Sometimes it was a phrase at a time”: The tortured story of The Doors’ Waiting For The Sun, the album that set Jim Morrison on the path to destruction

Three albums in and Jim Morrison was heading down a dark path

Louder

Mommy dearest? Molly Jong-Fast’s blistering memoir of her ‘always performing’ mother Erica is hilarious and moving

My first boyfriend told me with some pride that he’d read Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (1973), and Shere Hite’s The Hite Report (1976). Though they had been selling in the millions, I hadn’t yet read either, and was keen to find out what he had learned.

The Conversation

The 34 Best Memoirs by Female Authors Worth Reading

Make room on the nightstand.

Marie Claire

‘Radical acceptance’: Yiyun Li lost both her sons to suicide. Her rigorous memoir reveals her as a very special writer

“My husband and I had two children and lost them both,” writes Yiyun Li early in her latest book, Things in Nature Merely Grow. And then, with harrowing directness, “Both chose suicide”.

The Conversation

The final fact-check of Joan Didion

One of the year’s best books yet shows us an author at odds with her own storytelling

Salon

Joan Didion's '70s Malibu dining room is a stunning slice of the Mediterranean – the terracotta tiles, wicker chairs, and wooden table are transcendent

Archival images of the writer's California home in 1972 are a masterclass in Spanish-style interiors – a designer explains how to recreate them

Homes & Gardens

Joan Didion's living room is a masterclass in the art of 'curated clutter' – it feels like a step into the ultra-chic writer's inner world

The writer's living room is an autobiography, featuring a stunning collection of antiques, rows of books, and lived-in furniture

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Homes & Gardens

I never wanted a '70s flair in my kitchen, until I saw Joan Didion's retro countertops – her colorful storage is perfect for my tiny space

As a long-time Joan Didion aficionado, I have followed her style for years, but her Californian kitchen offers her simplest design lesson to date

The Guardian - UK

‘My sadness is not a burden’: author Yiyun Li on the suicide of both her sons

As her memoir of losing her sons is published, the author talks about radical acceptance, and how writing fiction helped her to prepare for tragedy

The Conversation

Should Joan Didion’s therapy notes to her husband about their daughter have been published?

Joan Didion died, aged 87, in 2021. When a new volume of her diaries was announced, anticipation was high: her personal nonfiction is the foundation of her formidable literary legacy. But as details emerged, readers began to question the ethics of its publication.

The Independent UK

The boom in health memoirs and what they can tell us about being human

IN FOCUS: Nick Duerden speaks to the writers who’ve spilled their vulnerabilities onto the page, and asks why readers are flocking to books about the spirit of survival

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The Guardian - UK

Like Lena Dunham, I left my hometown. She’ll learn that what drives us away is often what draws us back

The Girls creator has moved from New York to London – and I did the reverse. Until one day I realised I didn’t want to die there, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Evening Standard

Notes to John by Joan Didion: Dispatches from the therapist’s chair are a guilty pleasure

Joan Didion, who died in 2021, never intended Notes to John to be published. They are, as the title intimates, notes to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and they are about meetings with her psychiatrist, Dr Roger MacKinnon, over the course of a little more than a year, beginning in…

The Guardian - UK

My friend Joan Didion wouldn’t have wanted her therapy notes to be published

Letter: Responding to an editorial about the publication of Notes to John, Clare Reihill writes that the late American writer never left anything to chance

The Guardian - UK

Notes to John by Joan Didion review – an invasion of privacy

There’s a crude fascination in seeing the contents of a literary celebrity’s therapy sessions, but no one comes out of it well

The Guardian - UK

I’ve never kept a diary. But if I had, I’d want it destroyed when I die

From Samuel Pepys to Joan Didion, many literary greats wrote for no one but themselves – then found posterity pawing through their secrets. Trust me: you don’t want to know my innermost thoughts

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on posthumously publishing Joan Didion: goodbye to all that

Editorial: Would the legendary American writer have welcomed the publication of her therapy notes? It seems unlikely

The Guardian - UK

‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativity

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