The Odyssey: new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s classical Greek epic released online
Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife, Penelope
Menopause is tough. But it’s fantastic being a woman in her 60s
My girlfriends and I have more fun, more adventures, more independence than ever before. And as for the sex …
The Given World by Melissa Harrison review – a stunning tale of rural life for an era of ecological crisis
Eerie omens haunt this absorbing group portrait set over six months in an English village
One Leg on Earth by ’Pemi Aguda review – a powerfully eerie portrait of Lagos
A young pregnant woman is assailed by dark visions of sisterhood in a novel splicing eco-horror, cosmic distress and ideas of the monstrous feminine
Iran and the Revolution by Homa Katouzian review – how the Islamic Republic was born
A landmark new account of the 1979 revolution provides much needed context for current events
‘I wanted it to feel both Shakespearean and like Jay-Z’: debut author Sufiyaan Salam on masculinity, rap and meeting Stormzy
Bringing Manchester’s Curry Mile to vibrant life, the #Merky prize-winning author’s cross-genre work focuses on the lives and language of young British men. He discusses identity and inspiration
Will human minds still be special in an age of AI?
We tend to think of intelligence like height – and imagine ourselves being overtaken. That misses the point
‘I was mortally offended’: writers on the throwaway comments that changed their lives
Can a sentence affect the course of your life? Five authors reveal the interactions that transformed the way they saw themselves – and the world
To give young people wings: The Lost Words duo reunite for book of birds
Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane give the Guardian exclusive extracts as they aim to open eyes to the wonder of Britain’s declining and endangered species
‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
Her philosophical approach to therapy has become a global phenomenon, and inspired a new book. Could a session with her change Sophie McBain’s life?
‘On the inside I felt a rage’: Antoinette Lattouf on emerging from her bruising battle with the ABC
The former presenter says she took strength from other women’s achievements as she researched her new book during federal court case
Annabel Crabb: ‘I worried that people might think I’m an idiot’
The broadcaster, cookbook writer and political commentator on hoarding, making Kitchen Cabinet and crying in the makeup room at the Logies
Homebound by Portia Elan review – a Cloud Atlas-like puzzle-box novel
From 1980s Cincinnati into the interstellar darkness, the stories of four women interconnect across the centuries in a gentle hymn to found families
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Yiewsley by Daljit Nagra; Mer de Glace by Małgorzata Lebda; The Intentions of Thunder by Patricia Smith; Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by Rishi Dastidar; Dark Night by St John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland
A bucolic county in upstate New York appointed a poet laureate. Why was she fired shortly after?
Esther Cohen was removed as Greene county’s poet laureate just weeks after the appointment. It’s ‘emblematic of the assault on the arts writ large’, some say