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Whitstable Biennale review – art with a fish-and-chips flavour

The coastal town plays host to a biennale with a brain, where dreams take over and home is a place that may not exist
  • 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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