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  • South Africa's Caster Semenya competes in the women's 800m heats at the athletics event of the London 2012 Olympic Games on August 8, 2012 in London. AFP PHOTO / OLIVIER MORIN (Photo credit should read OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/GettyImages)

    Observer book of the week
    The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya review – running for her life

    Emma John
  • Ian McKellen (Macbeth), Judi Dench (Lady Macbeth) in MACBETH by Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England 04/08/1976 design: John Napier lighting: Leo Leibovici director: Trevor Nunn<br>2E9Y7WH Ian McKellen (Macbeth), Judi Dench (Lady Macbeth) in MACBETH by Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England 04/08/1976 design: John Napier lighting: Leo Leibovici director: Trevor Nunn

    Memoir
    Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent review – Judi Dench’s seven-decade love affair

    Stephanie Merritt
    The veteran actor’s pragmatism, generosity and wit are to the fore in these reflections on her career – and there’s plenty of room for rude anecdotes
  • Naomi Alderman portrait

    Naomi Alderman
    A writer’s job is courage. You’ve got to be as honest as you can

    The bestselling author of The Power talks about her new techno-thriller, coping with grief and finding hope in the darkest of stories
  • Dennis Cooper -American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist - at his home in Paris 27/10/2023. Portrait by ©Magali Delporte

    Dennis Cooper
    I’m saddled with this cult writer thing

  • A farmhouse provides the setting for This Plague of Souls.

    Book of the day
    This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack review – a mysterious homecoming

    Erica Wagner
  • Justin Torres

    ‘Queer art can be de-sexed – I don’t want to be a part of that’
    Author Justin Torres on going gothic

  • A man in a raincoat and trilby lit by a street light

    Cartoon
    Tom Gauld on the crime novel cover model’s week – cartoon

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What to read

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Non-fiction reviews

  • Victoria Beckham and David Beckham in France.

    Society books
    Bad Taste by Nathalie Olah review – the good, the gauche and the ugly

    Richard Godwin
  • A monument to Mao Zedong in China

    History books
    Sparks by Ian Johnson review – China’s underground historians

    Amy Hawkins
    A skilful exploration of the artists, writers and film-makers challenging the country’s official account of its recent past
  • Graham Linehan.

    Memoir
    Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan review – all joking aside

    Fiona Sturges
    How a self-defeating obsession derailed the career of one of Britain’s most successful comedy writers
  • Winston Churchill's funeral, 1965.

    History books
    A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-1965 by David Kynaston review – cheerfulness through the gloom

    Anthony Quinn
  • Sly Stone

    Memoir
    Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) by Sly Stone review – funk, fame and addiction

    Dorian Lynskey
  • Tamworth By-election. Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor, in Tamworth to lend support to Sarah Edwards, Labour’s candidate for the by-election.

    Economics books
    The Women Who Made Modern Economics by Rachel Reeves review – why values matter

    Will Hutton
  • Black hole and white hole with nebula over stars and cloud fields in outer space.

    Science and nature books
    White Holes: Inside the Horizon review – Carlo Rovelli turns time on its head

    Kevin Fong
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Fiction & poetry reviews

  • A stag in the snow

    Short stories
    Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay review – exciting speculative tales

    Nina Allan
  • Bryan Washington.

    Fiction
    Family Meal by Bryan Washington review – sexploits and ennui

    Michael Donkor
    A deep dive into the friendships, hardships and sexual abandon of twentysomething queer life
  • Paul Auster: fond of an ‘authorial step behind the curtain’.

    Fiction
    Baumgartner by Paul Auster review – amiable aimlessness

    Anthony Cummins
    The celebrated writer’s new novel, about a widowed septuagenarian, opens strongly but can’t resolve the vast number of threads it starts to spin
  • A woman in costume back stage at a play

    Thrillers of the month
    Crime and thrillers of the month – reviews

    Alison Flood
  • Harrow School

    Fiction
    Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – an upper-class monster

    M John Harrison
  • The House of Slaves, Gorée Island, Senegal.

    Fiction
    Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop review – a colonial obsession

    Alexandra Harris
  • Arid desert plains in Melissa Broder’s Death Valley.

    Fiction
    Death Valley by Melissa Broder review – surreality bites

    Regina Porter
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Children's and YA books

  • D Is for Dog by Em Lynas, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie.

    Children's book roundup
    The best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  • The Great Storm Whale, Benji Davies

    Picture books
    Books for children – reviews

    Imogen Carter
    Benji Davies returns with more coastal charms, lonely animals find acceptance – plus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s tale about a toddler
  • A page from Mama’s Sleeping Scarf by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and illustrator Joelle Avelino.

    Children's book roundup
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
    A joyful picture-book account of family life; a magical fantasy series begins; an addictive epistolary friendship; fast-paced feminist YA; and more
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Interviews

  • ‘Most of us are completely in a relationship with the internet’ … Broder, whose new novel is called Death Valley.

    ‘X is a mishmash of hell’
    Twitter star Melissa Broder on grief, ‘the musking’ and her new novel Death Valley

  • Samantha Harvey, author, photographed at her home near Bath on 21st September 2023.

    Samantha Harvey
    I like Alien as much as anybody else. But I see this novel as space pastoral

    The novelist who’s been likened to Virginia Woolf on her new book set on the International Space Station, how insomnia has changed the way she thinks – and her fascination with time and faith
  • Writing is like drinking - I do it to get rid of myself

    Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse
    It took years before I dared to write again

    In 2012, the Norwegian novelist and playwright collapsed. He gave up drinking, retreating from the public eye – then, earlier this month, he got a call from the Swedish academy. He discusses how it feels to win a Nobel prize
  • Jesmyn Ward.

    Novelist Jesmyn Ward
    Losing my partner almost made me stop writing

  • Adam Sisman, author, photographed at his home in Bristol 18th October 2023

    John le Carré biographer Adam Sisman
    He wanted to make me love him

  • Roxane Gay

    Roxane Gay
    I’m trying to move further left because that’s the only way that we’re gonna achieve change

  • Cambridge, MA -- Writer and photographer Teju Cole poses for a portrait at the Cambridge Public Library, where he often visits to research and write, on October 2, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (photo by Kayana Szymczak for The Observer)

    Teju Cole
    Being avant garde isn’t about being unreadable

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Regulars

  • Dolly Alderton.

    The books of my life
    Dolly Alderton: ‘In an emergency, I turn to Bridget Jones’

  • illustration

    Big idea
    The big idea: has the digital economy killed capitalism?

    Rather than turbo-charging the free market, Amazon et al have brought back a kind of feudalism
  • Nothing to be done … Patrick Stewart (Vladimir) and Ian McKellen (Estragon) in Waiting for Godot.

    The last word
    Making your mind up: the best descriptions of indecision in literature

    The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of dithering this month, from Hamlet to the ‘maybe-boyfriend’ of Anna Burns’s Milkman
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You may have missed

  • Lupita Nyong’o in Jordan Peele’s 2019 horror film, Us.

    Horror fiction
    Shock of the new: Jordan Peele, Mariana Enríquez and more on the horror fiction renaissance

  • ‘Lets us look at our own world in a new light’ … Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition

    Fantasy
    British Library celebrates the surging popularity of fantasy fiction

  • The Brixton Black Women's Group.

    ‘It was amazing to find sisters’
    Brixton Black Women’s Group on their revolutionary newsletter

  • The 2018 Netflix adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House.

    ‘She exposed the fragility of so-called civilised life’
    Why Shirley Jackson’s horror speaks to our times

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