The Guardian view on the Women’s Library at 100: a cause for celebration but not complacency
Editorial: The ups and downs of the collection launched by Millicent Fawcett make it an apt symbol of an ongoing struggle
Clare Gittings obituary
Other lives: Learning manager who made visiting schoolchildren feel welcome at the National Portrait Gallery
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Goyle, Chert, Mire by Jean Sprackland; The House of Broken Things by Kim Moore; The Tree Is Missing by Shannon Kuta Kelly; Dog Star by Michael Symmons Roberts; Horses by Jake Skeets
Sarah Hall: ‘Everyone wangs on about Anna Karenina – I’ve never been able to finish it’
The author on being inspired by Michael Ondaatje and how Hilary Mantel helped her overcome her aversion to historical figure novels
Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden review – are criminals born or made?
A psychologist delves into the genetics of bad behaviour in a book littered with fascinating scientific findings
Sororicidal by Edwina Preston review – a tale of two sisters tinged with danger
The author deftly captures the intricacies and subtle violence of a sibling relationship. As both girls age, our sympathies shift again and again
‘Slavery bounded his life’: Thomas Jefferson’s views on race – in his own words
A new book by historian Annette Gordon-Reed explores the former US president’s writings on race throughout his life
Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry audiobook review – an extraordinary chronicle of terminal illness
The author’s father-in-law died just nine days after his cancer diagnosis, inspiring this moving and sharply observed account of his last days
Made in Fire Island: how artists were at the heart of the LGBTQ+ mecca
A new book shows that the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar – as well as a new generation of artists – would not be the same without the New York island
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley review – the laureate of bad relationships
Riley has always skewered cruelty with shattering exactitude. What’s new in this story of two old friends in London is the delicacy she brings to moments of tenderness
A feud ‘straight out of Succession’, a rental thriller and an ‘absolute ripper’: the best Australian books out in April
Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in March
John Lanchester, Patmeena Sabit and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
JD Vance announces a new memoir about his conversion to Catholicism
The vice-president’s follow-up to Hillbilly Elegy is announced as speculation builds over a 2028 run to succeed Trump
Bold concepts, loose ends in Ibram X Kendi’s Chain of Ideas
While informative, the book struggles to identify materially what strategies can change racist systems held hostage by the political right and centre
Under Water by Tara Menon review – love, loss and a longing for the ocean
This debut about female friendship and environmental fragility set after the 2004 tsunami in Thailand is strong on grief, but the storytelling remains uneven