What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in November
Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
February 2023
Think yourself better: 10 rules of philosophy to live by
From Aristotle to Iris Murdoch: what the greatest minds of the past 2,500 years have to tell us about the good life
March 2022
The books of my life
Barbara Trapido: ‘I love all other George Eliot – but can’t forgive Daniel Deronda’
The novelist on Iris Murdoch’s enticing vision of London, and discovering detective novels in her seventies
February 2022
Metaphysical Animals review – four women who changed philosophy
Book of the day
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life – review
November 2021
The Guardian view on Roman Britain: a constantly shifting picture
Editorial: New discoveries are constantly reshaping and enriching the story of our past
December 2020
The Snow Ball by Brigid Brophy review – a swirling, sensual feast
This timely reissue of Brophy’s 1964 masterpiece transports us to a New Year’s Eve masquerade ball full of romance and eroticism
July 2020
From Donna Tartt to Irvine Welsh: 10 great novels about friendship
Urban junkies, competitive mothers, adolescent girls caught in the world of Charles Manson ... Lara Feigel picks her 10 favourites
July 2019
The Guardian Books podcast
Iris Murdoch at 100 and Howard Jacobson on humour and shame – books podcast
Iris Murdoch at 100: ‘Her books are full of passion and disaster’
April 2019
Book clinic
Book clinic: what will I love as much as Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends?
Sadie Jones recommends novels dealing with infidelity
March 2019
Letters: Lady Warnock obituary
Bruce Ross-Smith writes: What Mary Warnock had to say on Sartre is still worth revisiting
December 2017
Top 10s
Top 10 novels about God
Books blog
Kingsley Amis was spied on – but he’s in the best literary company
February 2017
Iris Murdoch’s philosopher was losing his words back in 1983
Letters: The hero of The Philosopher’s Pupil deplores his increasing loss of control over language, a problem not at that time apparent to the other characters in the novel
August 2016
Top 10s
Top 10 seaside novels
Books to give you hope
Books to give you hope: The Bell by Iris Murdoch
April 2016
Top 10s
Top 10 depictions of British rain
Rereading
The Sea, the Sea – Sarah Churchwell on the making of a monster
March 2016
The Little Library Café
Food in books: fish cakes from Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea
Kate Young reflects on the pleasures and hurdles of cooking for one and revisits Iris Murdoch’s Booker-winning novel, filled with accounts of solitary meals
