A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back
Letters: Readers share their tips on discovering new authors and reading more widely
February 2023
The Guardian view on the history of feelings: a serious subject
Editorial: Books and documentaries can not only tell us what happened in the Soviet Union and why – but why it matters
October 2022
In Annie Ernaux’s Nobel prize we see the public value of our intimate histories
Gaby Wood
The Guardian view on Annie Ernaux: a vintage Nobel winner
June 2022
‘Trust breached’: publisher distances herself from author John Hughes amid plagiarism claims
Upswell publisher Terri-ann White says she is distressed by controversy around former Miles Franklin prize longlist novel The Dogs
Miles Franklin prize removes novel from longlist after author apologises for plagiarism
Exclusive: The Dogs by John Hughes withdrawn from $60,000 prize after novelist admits he used parts of nonfiction work of Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich ‘without realising’
Miles Franklin-nominated novelist apologises for plagiarising Nobel laureate ‘without realising’
Exclusive: Guardian Australia uncovers multiple near-identical phrases and scenes in John Hughes’ book The Dogs and Svetlana Alexievich’s nonfiction work The Unwomanly Face of War
February 2022
Writers stand united in a call for peace
Letter: Signatories from PEN International call for an end to the violence unleashed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
March 2021
The Guardian view on the writing business: readers must ultimately benefit
Editorial: People want stories and that means cultivating a publishing ecosystem where big and small can flourish
September 2020
Belarus charges opposition leader with 'undermining national security'
Maria Kolesnikova could face up to five years in prison as president cracks down on opposition
August 2020
Belarus: we will not give up, says opposition leader after new arrests
Belarus president Lukashenko urged to quit: 'Leave before it's too late'
January 2020
Top 10s
From Homer to Alexievich: top 10 books about the human cost of war
The novelist explains how literature illuminates soldiers’ experience, and how it helped her depict the women who fought Mussolini in Ethiopia
November 2019
Top 10s
Top 10 eyewitness accounts of 20th-century history
These stories of a tumultuous era bring to life its intimate passions and accidents as well as its overwhelming scale
October 2019
Books interview
Svetlana Alexievich: ‘Most children caught up in war die early’
The Nobel prize-winning author on using oral history to convey the horrors of war
July 2019
Book of the week
Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich review – the astonishing achievement of the Nobel prize winner
From Chernobyl to the experience of children during the second world war ... Alexievich has produced her own remarkable version of Soviet history
July 2018
Books that made me
Joe Dunthorne: ‘On the Road takes longer to read than it did to write’
The Welsh writer on why you can’t trust Jack Kerouac, paying homage to Don DeLillo, and the ‘weird and witty’ Jane Bowles novel that remains underrated
March 2018
Books blog
Translators are the vanguard of literary change: we need better recognition
Daniel Hahn
Using the winnings from one book prize, I’ve set up another, the TA first translation prize – and here’s why we need it
August 2017
The Guardian view on oral history: the power of witness
Notebook
Sorry, but here’s the truth – your child isn’t amazing
