The big idea: should we work less?
A shorter working week could benefit society, the environment - even the economy. Is it time to reassess our relationship with our jobs?
Netflix acquires works of Roald Dahl as it escalates streaming wars
Content deal over author of children’s classics such as Matilda and The BFG is firm’s biggest to date
Booksellers warn over Christmas supplies amid UK lorry driver shortage
Shops build up stocks early to offset bottlenecks as publishers warn Brexit and pandemic are delaying distribution
‘I’m giddy to be here’: the risk-takers who opened bookshops during Covid
Who would open a bookshop in a pandemic? We asked five of them to share their stories, while Val McDermid remembers the bookshops of her youth
Social Warming by Charles Arthur review – a coolly prosecutorial look at social media
Social media giants contribute to global conflicts and allow misinformation. What are they doing to our lives, and what can we do about it?
A financial fairytale: how one man fooled the global elite
In a shocking new fact-based book, an equity firm founder goes from cosying up with Bill Gates and the US government to being accused of fraud and money laundering
‘All clothes are handmade’: the migrant workers behind Australian fashion
Generations of Vietnamese outworkers’ skills have underpinned the Australian fashion industry. Emma Do and Kim Lam explore their work in a graphic novel
Between Two Worlds review – Juliette Binoche goes undercover in the gig economy
Emmanuel Carrère’s drama – based on Florence Aubenas’s bestseller Le Quai de Ouistreham – fails to probe fully the injustices faced by low-paid workers
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam review – a deft take on tech times
A witty investigation into the misogyny and bro culture of the world of startups and social media apps
Edward de Bono obituary
Author, doctor and inventor of the term lateral thinking who wrote more than 60 books on his original and unorthodox theories
Oxford University Press to end centuries of tradition by closing its printing arm
Falling sales blamed as 20 jobs axed in final chapter for history of printing in the city, which stretches back to the earliest days of book publishing
Bloomsbury profits jump as ‘joy of reading rediscovered’ in lockdown
Harry Potter publisher issues third profit upgrade of 2021 after sales increase to £185m
Authors to earn royalties on secondhand books for first time
AuthorSHARE, a royalty fund set up by two used booksellers with support from industry bodies, is calling for more retailers to participate
Chefs lament the demise of food bible that made postwar British life better
Anger and sadness as Waitrose closes The Good Food Guide, the gourmet restaurant-goer’s friend for the past 70 years
Madoff Talks review: definitive life of an ‘extraordinarily evil’ man
Jim Campbell exchanged hundreds of emails and letters with the financier whose crimes brought him a 150-year sentence