Steven Rose obituary
Neuroscientist, author, political activist and advocate for social responsibility in science
John Noone obituary
Other lives: English lecturer and writer who turned from fiction to non-fiction – and back again
Children’s reading enjoyment falls to lowest recorded level in UK
Annual survey of young people’s reading habits which began two decades ago shows its lowest-ever result, most pronounced among boys aged 11 to 16
Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews
Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readers
Think you know a lot about Dickens? Then who’s this Herbert character?
This minor figure from Great Expectations has sown panic at the GCSEs. Be honest: have you even heard of him, asks Zoe Williams
John Fletcher obituary
Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett
Marika Sherwood obituary
Historian and anti-racism campaigner who wrote several groundbreaking books about Black British history
Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick review – the kids aren’t all right
Against a backdrop of Thatcher and the Falklands, this sharp debut punctures the facade of life at a middle-England grammar school
Five years on from the pandemic, how has Covid changed our world?
We asked a group of experts on politics, trade, literature, psychology, work and more: what has been the most surprising or shocking consequence of Covid-19 in your field?
Ministers urged to add audiobooks to England’s new schools curriculum
Charity calls for move after poll finds ‘crisis’ levels of reading for pleasure and rise in 8- to 18-year-olds enjoying audio
The one change that worked: I found an escape from online life by swapping my home office for the library
I can find essential and unusual facts for my arts journalism in the dusty old tomes – information not readily available on Google. And, as I did as a child, I lose myself in a world of books ...
The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
Peter Honey obituary
Other lives: Behavioural psychologist, management consultant and author of more than 40 books
Alan Carling obituary
Other lives: Respected professor of sociology at the University of Bradford
Bad Education by Matt Goodwin review – a lapsed liberal’s war on ‘woke’ lecture
The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuance