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The Notebook review – Forced Entertainment’s dark fairytale about war and childhood

This show based on Agota Kristof's story strips away any sentimentality to present the diary of twins surviving war, writes Lyn Gardner

Take a good look: that’s you

Forced Entertainment's latest project presents imaginary cities reeling with violence. Jonathan Jones takes a look
  • British novelist Gwendoline Riley wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize
  • Rebecca Hall obituary
  • The Writer and the Traitor by Robert Verkaik review – the strange case of Graham Greene and Kim Philby
  • Two for two? Stella prize winner Evelyn Araluen nominated again for second poetry collection
  • My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum review – as fierce and strange as anything you’ll read this year
  • Stand By Me review – Rob Reiner’s nostalgic look at friendship and the loss of innocence still grips tight
  • The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge review – a medieval horror story
  • Modern heroes and a ravaged Earth: reboot of 1950s space comic Dan Dare has liftoff
  • ‘For leftist Jews, the Bund is a model’: the radical history behind one of Europe’s biggest socialist movements
  • Upward Bound by Woody Brown review – extraordinary debut from a non-speaking autistic author
  • London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe review – a compulsive tale of money, lies and avoidable tragedy
  • The Stranger review – lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic
  • The Hair of the Pigeon by Mohammed Massoud Morsi review – an epic tale of a refugee’s journey
  • Into the Wreck by Susannah Dickey review – an immersive exploration of grief
  • Jan Morris by Sara Wheeler review – masterly account of a flawed figure
  • How to use procrastination to your advantage
  • Life of Pi author Yann Martel: ‘I thought the Iliad was a book for old farts… then I started getting ideas’
  • ‘Enough of this me me me’: Blake Morrison on memoir in the age of oversharing
  • The Guide #237: Fab 5 Freddy, the street artist at the heart of New York’s creative zenith
  • The Guardian view on the Women’s Library at 100: a cause for celebration but not complacency
  • David Judge obituary
  • Clare Gittings obituary
  • The best recent poetry – review roundup
  • Sarah Hall: ‘Everyone wangs on about Anna Karenina – I’ve never been able to finish it’
  • Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden review – are criminals born or made?
  • Sororicidal by Edwina Preston review – a tale of two sisters tinged with danger
  • ‘Slavery bounded his life’: Thomas Jefferson’s views on race – in his own words
  • Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry audiobook review – an extraordinary chronicle of terminal illness
  • I did not tell my sister that our other sister was dying. Silence was the right choice, yet murky and painful
  • The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley review – the laureate of bad relationships

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