Can fairytales and fantasy compete with Fortnite? How to get kids reading at any age

Books, comics, films, video games … does it matter how children discover stories? Keeping an open mind is just one way to help get them hooked

‘Writing this book was like a drug high’: Rachel Kushner on her Booker-listed novel

The author on her party years in San Francisco, why she loves getting older and her most ambitious novel yet

Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon review – brilliant tales of beasts

Greek myths inspire a masterly short-story collection that takes in ghosts, gods and meditations on mortality

Major publishers sue Florida over ‘unconstitutional’ school book ban

Hundreds of titles from Judy Blume to Mark Twain purged from school libraries following rightwing challenges

Author Robin DiAngelo accused of plagiarism over doctoral thesis

Complaint brought against White Fragility author over passages in 2004 paper, but some suspect political motives

The best translated fiction – review roundup

Mammoth by Eva Baltasar; Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes; The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem; Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto

Matt Haig: ‘I use Winnie-the-Pooh as a pencil sharpener for the mind’

The author on how AA Milne and Emily Dickinson helped him through illness, being inspired by Stephen King and why he thinks Graham Greene is one of the best

Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane review – atmospheric stories linked by a murderer’s crimes

McFarlane’s lyrical follow-up to The Sun Walks Down explores the reverberations of violence, and the stories we tell about crime

Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey review – the Irish diaspora

Life in the capital is vividly evoked, in a tale of love and loss spanning four decades

Elaine by Will Self review – all about my mother

An extraordinary portrait of a frustrated and furious 1950s American housewife, based on the diaries of Self’s mother

The Watermark by Sam Mills review – a time-travelling romp

Two lovers are trapped in a series of books, tumbling through different eras and genres, in this superb metafictional adventure

My dad, Munich and the Busby Babes: United in grief

My novel about the plane crash in February 1958, which wiped out a talented generation of footballers, looks at the wider repercussions and the unsung heroes of a national tragedy

‘You need to think of history like a sausage’: Rodney Hall devours one momentous year in his new novel

At 88, the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin award has captured the grand geopolitical tangle of 1954 in his ambitious 14th novel, Vortex

If Only by Vigdis Hjorth review – love will tear her apart

The pursuit of an unprepossessing academic is pushed to its tragicomic limits in this highly pleasurable tale of unrequited passion

Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon review – myth and legend refocused in deft short stories

The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time gives fresh legs to the Minotaur, Actaeon, his hounds and more