Climate 'We have a once-in-century chance': Naomi Klein on how we can fight the climate crisisThe Guardian - Naomi KleinHumanity has a once-in-a-century chance to fix an economic model that is failing the majority of people on multiple fronts On a Friday in mid-March, they streamed out of schools in little rivulets, burbling
Climate Naomi Klein: 'We are seeing the beginnings of the era of climate barbarism'The Guardian - Natalie HanmanThe individual decisions that we make are not going to add up to anything like the kind of scale of change that we need Why are you publishing this book now? I still feel that the way that we talk about
Books In brief: Bone China; Diary of a Lone Twin; As Kingfishers Catch Fire – reviewsThe Guardian - Hannah BeckermanPurcell returns with a third gothic novel, this time set around the rugged Cornish coastline. Louise Pinecroft lives with her father in Morvoren House after her mother and siblings have died from consumption.
Books A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier review – hidden hurts and secret longingsThe Guardian - Hephzibah AndersonYou’ll hear echoes of the estimable Barbara Pym as Violet’s heels clip across the cathedral’s inner close Just twice in Tracy Chevalier’s bittersweet new novel does its heroine, Violet Speedwell, think
Books Thea Porter’s Scrapbook edited by Venetia Porter review – queen of bohemian chicThe Guardian - Kate KellawayIt all began in 1966 in a scruffy shop in Greek Street, Soho. Thea Porter, who was born in 1927 and spent her early life in Syria and Lebanon, started off selling furniture and textiles: “huge embroidered
Stephen King The Institute by Stephen King review – tested thrills with a topical spinThe Guardian - Xan Brooks“Ever been to Pleasure Island?” asks Lampwick, the rowdy, doomed delinquent from Disney’s Pinocchio, as the stagecoach spirits a cargo of children through the darkened streets and clear out of the world.
Books Tobias Jones: ‘Italy’s ultras are eloquent critics of modern football’The Guardian - Interview by Killian FoxViolence is a central part of what they are, and they’re very honest about that Tobias Jones was born in Somerset and educated at Oxford University. He worked for the London Review of Books and the Independent
Books At home with Italy's ultras: ‘It isn’t about watching football, but watching each other’The Guardian - Tobias JonesSomeone who frequents the curva is an idealist and an idealist can, in certain circumstances, become an extremist Verona fan Nothing is quite as it seems. The story told by the police is invariably the
Margaret Atwood The Testaments by Margaret Atwood review – hints of a happy endingThe Guardian - Julie MyersonAtwood challenges us to think and rethink, to see our volatile world anew Those of us lucky enough to read The Handmaid’s Tale back when it first appeared in 1985 will remember the shock of a novel that
Poetry Book clinic: which collections will get me reading more poetry?The Guardian - Kate KellawayQ: I read a lot of fiction and nonfiction, but there is a big gap in my poetry reading. What are good collections to start with? Emma, 29, librarian, Bangor Observer writer and poetry critic Kate Kellaway
Books Lisa Appignanesi: ‘Rage and anger are part of mourning’The Guardian - Alex PrestonWe are grieving an idea of a lost England that probably never existed In November 2015, Lisa Appignanesi’s partner of 32 years, John Forrester, the Cambridge professor of philosophy, died. He had been
Poetry Poem of the month: No one uses doilies anymoreThe Guardian - Vona Groarkeso why do I hold the word to the window so the holes in the pattern are years ago and a visitor has come? Impossible to talk of the mart or catarrh as though days, clumps and clods of them, could be glamoured
Poetry The best recent poetry – review roundupThe Guardian - Fiona SampsonPoetry is changing. And it’s not just spoken word and Instapoets who are changing it: at long last, diverse voices and experiences are getting a proper hearing. Across the English-speaking world, new in
Melton Mowbray Louise Doughty on Melton Mowbray: ‘My grandparents’ gazes met across a pie’The Guardian - Louise DoughtyWhen I eat pork pies now I have my very own Proustian moment, back to discarding the jelly on a Saturday teatime It’s a good job I like pork pies as I wouldn’t exist without them. My grandparents met they
Books First novel at 12, gone at 25: the mystery of Barbara Newhall FollettThe Guardian - Jackie MorrisIn 1939, Newhall Follett walked out of the apartment she shared with her husband, Nick. She left no note and took only a few dollars This is a tale of presence and absence. A mystery, a fantasy. It begins
Books Fly Already by Etgar Keret review – a dazzling short story collectionThe Guardian - Matt Rowland HillIn the title story of Etgar Keret’s new collection, a father and his young son are walking down the street when they spot a man on the roof of a four-storey building. “Don’t do it, please!” shouts the
Edward Snowden Permanent Record by Edward Snowden review – the whistleblower’s memoirThe Guardian - Nick HopkinsThe CIA didn’t quite understand. The computer guy knows everything, or rather can know everything Towards the end of Edward Snowden’s memoir, he hands the narrative to his partner, Lindsay Mills, in the
Books After Caroline Calloway: should ghostwriters speak out against their subjects?The Guardian - Alison FloodThirty years after ghostwriting Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, Tony Schwartz described the experience as like putting lipstick on a pig. He felt a “deep sense of remorse” at helping bring the man
FIAT What is an ‘executive fiat’?The Guardian - Steven PooleAs Parliament was closing down this week, speaker John Bercow said the five-week prorogation was an act of “executive fiat”. An executive fiat is not a businessperson’s car, as that marque is an acronym
Books Lemn Sissay: ‘My guilty pleasure is Lee Child’s Jack Reacher – no more films, OK?The Guardian - Lemn SissayThe book I am currently reading Bahru Zewde’s A History of Modern Ethiopia. I bought it from a bookseller on the streets of Addis Ababa. The book that changed my life Every book I read changes me in one
Books This Golden Fleece by Esther Rutter review – knit your own historyThe Guardian - Kathryn HughesWhen Vanessa Bell painted her sister, Virginia Woolf, in 1912 she didn’t give her eyes, although she did supply her with knitting needles and what looks like the beginnings of a reddish-pink scarf huddled
Books Ultra by Tobias Jones review – Italian football and the far rightThe Guardian - Tim ParksA minority hankering for authoritarianism is a constant in Italy – fascism, alas, has no need of the terraces What to do about violent youth? Violent young men that is. Their thirst for action, extremity,
Books The Art of the Body by Alexander Allison review – cruelty versus compassionThe Guardian - Shahidha BariSean is in his early 20s, an art student, and lives with cerebral palsy. It’s the cerebral palsy that gives him an “accent” – that’s how Janet, the young woman employed to care for him, describes it. has
Books Nazism, slavery, empire: can countries learn from national evil?The Guardian - Alex ClarkThis nostalgia that you see – it’s as if the British empire brought nothing but civilisation to the rest of the world When Susan Neiman’s German friends discovered she was working on a book called Learning
Books Michael Morpurgo on fighting Brexit: 'I've been spat at. It's almost civil war'The Guardian - Etan SmallmanWe don't know what it is like to be chased from our homes Michael Morpurgo has all the trappings befitting a prolific, bestselling and beloved children’s author. There is the National Theatre production
Books Ian McEwan announces surprise Brexit satire, The CockroachThe Guardian - Sian CainIn Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa awoke to discover that he had been transformed into a monstrous beetle. Now, in Ian McEwan’s unexpected new project, Jim Sams wakes and finds he must endure a worse
Play buttonBooks Will my cat eat my eyeballs? How Caitlin Doughty teaches kids about deathThe Guardian - Marianne EloiseTurning grief into healthy grief is not a disservice to the person who died, even if it was someone incredibly close to you Caitlin Doughty When faced with the question “what do you want to be when you
Literature Turkish author jailed for life nominated for £50,000 book awardThe Guardian - Alison FloodThree years almost to the day since the Turkish author Ahmet Altan was first jailed in the wake of the country’s failed coup, he has been longlisted for the £50,000 Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction
Books Mask Off by JJ Bola review – masculinity redefinedThe Guardian - Houman BarekatOne of the more welcome publishing trends of the past two or three years has been the glut of thoughtful books about modern masculinity. These include memoirs such as Howard Cunnell’s moving account of
