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new video loaded: 3 Summer Books to Carry You Into FallBy MJ Franklin, Karen Hanley, Claire Hogan and Stephanie Swart•September 7, 2025MJ Franklin, an editor at…

FictionHelm by Sarah HallFaber, out nowHall is best known for her glittering short stories: this is the novel she’s been working on for two decades. Set…

Personal stories are a strong focus in this year’s Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction longlist, with Yiyun Li’s memoir about the loss of her two teenage…

Selecting a book to read can sometimes be overwhelming: countless books are published every year, and there are countless more published years ago that we haven’t…

We expect our doctors to be demi-gods – flawless, tireless, always right. But they are only human. Increasingly, they are stretched thin, working long hours, under…

August 30, 20255 min readTurn the Page on Summer: August’s Essential Book PicksCheck out this collection of nonfiction and fiction books recommended by Scientific AmericanBy Brianne…

Lea Ypi’s prize-winning memoir, Free, detailed the experience of growing up in Albania both before and after communist rule. Her new book, Indignity, reconstructs the life of…

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment celebrates novels written about or during America’s Gilded…

A Totally Big Umbrella by Sarah Crossan, illustrated by Rebecca Cobb, Walker, £12.99Rain ruins all Tallulah’s favourite things until she finds a really huge umbrella –…

Britain, says James Fox, was once a place teeming with bodgers, badgers, ballers, bag women, bottom stainers, fat boys, flashers and flirters. That’s not forgetting the riddlers,…