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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…

Democracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary author

INTERVIEW: The prolific non-fiction writer returns to her favourite themes of hope and uncertainty in her cheerful new book, ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’. In a conversation with Hannah Ewens, she discusses why fiction is overrated, why new age spirituality is a hoax and how a functional social welfare…

This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

David Graeber, who died in 2020 at the age of 59, was an anthropologist and a political activist. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is a curated collection of his essays. Like a glitzy museum exhibition, it is part serious memorialisation, part entertainment, and part invitation to play.

Tech giants said today’s digital native kids would be the first generation who would not know what it meant to get lost. But is that a good thing?

The Handmaid’s Tale has risen more than 400 places on bestseller charts since Wednesday with a similar rush for copies of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had the power to change the world

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