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Don’t look away…. Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre review – a devastating exposé of power, corruption and abuse

Arundhati Roy on her fugitive childhood: ‘My knees were full of scars and cuts – a sign of my wild, imperfect, fatherless life’

The year after my son died in childbirth | Poppy Noor

‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’ When he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime. Then Trump got back into power ... Is it time to move again?

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‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize

‘This treasure belongs to the nation’: Miriam Margolyes and Brian Cox join calls to save Wordsworth’s home

‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing? The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativity

‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm

Did my Jewish great-grandfather make chemical weapons for the Nazis? Author Joe Dunthorne on a dark legacy

‘Much darker than Pride and Prejudice!’: authors pick their favourite Jane Austen novel Colm Tóibín, Katherine Rundell, Rebecca Kuang and other leading novelists celebrate the author in her 250th year

‘Much darker than Pride and Prejudice!’: authors pick their favourite Jane Austen novel

Martha Mills young writers’ prize 2025 opens for entries This year’s competition for 11- to 14-year-olds, in memory of the budding writer who died aged 13, is on the theme of A New World

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‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

Trump chairing a major arts institution would be laughable if it weren’t so deeply troubling | Charlotte Higgins

What if you never come down? The 90s clubbers who wouldn’t let the night end – a picture essay

‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea With protests on the streets of Seoul, the celebrated writer talks about the painful process of uncovering her country’s brutal past - and how it felt to win the Nobel prize

Moving and thoughtful interview with Nobel winner Han Kang: ‘I want to be hopeful’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea

Author Tony Tulathimutte: ‘The great millennial theme? Resentment’

Nero book award winner Adam S Leslie: ‘I’ve never had much interest in boring, everyday life’

‘She couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk’: music therapy helped Joni Mitchell recover from a stroke – could it ward off depression and dementia too?

David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream

Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, speaks: ‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’

Dignity and humanity of Afghan women must be worth more than game of cricket | Jonathan Liew