Who’s going to be triggered by Northanger Abbey? It’s hardly Game of Thrones

Greenwich University is warning students to prepare themselves for the ‘toxic friendships’ Jane Austen satirises in her novel

Jean Blondel obituary

Political scientist whose radical approach and professorship at Essex University transformed the study of government

Are you bored yet? Maybe it is time to write that great novel – here are some tips to get going

That book, memoir or screenplay is not going to write itself. Take some time away from the festivities, follow these exercises and that masterpiece could be on its way

Children’s authors of colour published in UK rose to 11.7% of market in 2021

BookTrust research shows, however, that the overall picture ‘remains far from representative’ with some writers and illustrators reporting tokenism

To change our future, we should change how we teach history to children

We adults may not be able to unlearn the damaging stories we were told, but we can halt their march through the generations, says author Yuval Noah Harari

Policy of secrecy leaves authors with ‘no inkling’ works are being set for NSW’s year 12 exams

Delia Falconer and Nikki Gemmell latest writers to find out their works were selected for the HSC – after the exams

Pennsylvania school district accused of banning Girls Who Code book series

Pen America says Central York school district’s 2021 ban list included coding titles, but officials say material no longer banned

How to beat a book ban: students, parents and librarians fight back

As rightwing campaigns for censorship sweep the US, opponents are finding ways to keep books on the shelves

The Guardian view on children’s reading: books of one’s own

Editorial: The benefits of reading at home are many and lifelong. Falling levels of enjoyment are a cause for worry

‘Rapid acceleration’ in US school book censorship leads to 2,500 bans in a year

School districts in 32 states banned 1,648 individual titles in the last school year, a report by Pen America found

Exposed by Caroline Vout review – the real Greek and Roman body

Forget the chilly perfection of marble sculpture – a Cambridge classicist presents ancient bodies in all their fleshy fallibility

Salted owl and roasted puppy: Cambridge University to digitise medieval cures

Curious Cures is a two-year project to conserve more than 180 manuscripts, revealing the ‘precarity of medieval life’ and strangeness of pre-scientific medicine

Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs

Educational publisher’s move into non-fungible tokens is intended to claw back some of the income lost to secondhand sales

When I became a doctor, I thought I could cope with the pain and death I would see. I was wrong

I couldn’t deal with the emotional load, so I became a writer, and poured it on to the page, says Joanna Cannon

‘You can’t say that!’: how to argue, better

A good debate isn’t about one person declaring victory, it’s about both people making a discovery, says psychologist Adam Grant