Philip Hammond weighs options for spring statement spending

Can the chancellor deliver the ‘end to austerity’?

Marvel shouldn’t rush to introduce the X-Men to its cinematic universe

They caught Sony’s Spider-Man in their web, but the merger of Marvel’s parent company Disney with 20th Century Fox shouldn’t let mutants overpower their MCU superheroes

Why are New York’s bookstores disappearing?

The city that produced so many authors is losing its bookshops to pressure from Amazon, changing reading habits and skyrocketing rents

Shatterhand: new James Bond film’s working title revealed

Delayed 007 to begin filming in April under title borrowed from Blofeld alias

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas review – superb hate-reading

The hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who believe they are helping the world makes for superb hate-reading

The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig by Eamonn Forde – review

A lively, unsparing account of Terra Firma’s takeover of EMI and the music giant’s subsequent collapse tells us much about modern-day Britain

I’ve covered nine financial crises since the 1960s. Here’s what I learned

From the devaluation of sterling in 1967 to Brexit uncertainty, our economics commentator reflects on how Britain has diced with fiscal catastrophe

Fightback against the billionaires: the radicals taking on the global elite

When Rutger Bregman and Winnie Byanyima spoke out about taxes at Davos they went viral. They talk with Winners Take All author Anand Giridharadas about why change is coming

Zucked by Roger McNamee review – Facebook’s catastrophe

An important investor explains how his enthusiasm has turned to shame

‘Leading the entertainment pack’: UK print book sales rise again

Bestsellers including Michelle Obama’s Becoming cited as reasons for success, with industry voices praising sector for fourth consecutive year of growth

Hello 2019 – what are you likely to bring?

Politics, science, technology, TV, books … here’s what to expect in the year ahead

Brexit page-turners are flying off the shelves

Titles by authors such as Fintan O’Toole, James O’Brien and Jonathan Coe confound bleak consumer trends

‘I’d love to scream at them’: how showroomers became the No 1 threat to bookshops

Customers who visit stores only to research their online purchases are the biggest threat to the industry – and booksellers are taking a stand

At last, we get a local bookshop. But I fear the writing is on the wall

The online possibilities have spoiled customers like us, says the Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

‘Axe the reading tax’: book industry demands end to VAT on ebooks

Following EU directive that allows governments to waive duty on digital publications, calls grow for the UK to end ‘illogical and unfair’ levy