‘Never fails to disappoint’: Roxy Jacenko book pulped after cover misprint
Allen & Unwin recalls PR expert’s guide to brand-building after Jackie O’s ‘nightmare’ endorsement
Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War take People’s Choice honours
Shadowhunters, Korean boyband BTS and Khloe Kardashian were the other major winners in the awards determined by an online vote
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter fuels Bloomsbury profit rise
Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential also helps boost publisher’s profits by 13%
The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer – review
The author and journalist Nicholas Shaxson gives a chilling account of the financial sector’s stranglehold on the UK
Nicholas Faith obituary
Journalist and scourge of the establishment who tempered his criticism when writing about the wine trade
David Coates obituary
Other lives: Political economist, author and liberal thinker who embraced the role of public intellectual
Francis Fukuyama: ‘Trump instinctively picks racial themes to drive people on the left crazy’
In 1989, the economist’s essay The End of History? asked whether liberalism had triumphed over ideology. History, however, had other ideas and his new book responds to the return of extremism
Yuval Noah Harari: the myth of freedom
Governments and corporations will soon know you better than you know yourself. Belief in the idea of freedom has become dangerous
Crazy Rich Asians is no racial triumph. It’s a soulless salute to the 1%
With its plummy accents, couture gowns and clumsy merging of cultures, this ‘tale of empowerment’ is just Sex and the City in Singapore
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari – digested read
The historian’s thoughts on how the world of the present might prepare for an uncertain future are distilled, with artistic licence
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back – review
Oliver Bullough follows the trail of the filthy rich in this compelling study of global wealth and corruption
Waterstones buys Foyles ‘in face of Amazon’s siren call’
Takeover will make business better able to ‘champion pleasures of real bookshops’
The Guardian view on the Edinburgh festivals: bigger is not always better
Editorial: Edinburgh in August plays host to an extraordinary wealth of culture and art. But it’s the quality of the experience that counts for both visitors and residents, not the number of events
Community venues breathe life into the UK’s left behind areas
From Wanstead to Ramsgate, entrepreneurial locals are setting up shops, cafes and bars
A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust?
He used to broker billion-dollar deals with telecom giants. Now he’s making a pact with the devil. We go behind the scenes of Philipp Humm’s AI take on Goethe’s damnation epic