‘It feels like a vindication’: Andrea Dworkin’s widower on the radical feminist’s rediscovery

John Stoltenberg, Dworkin’s partner for three decades, is thrilled by the reissue of three of her books as Penguin Modern Classics, and how a new generation is finding inspiration from her work

On my radar: Shon Faye’s cultural highlights

The author on an obscene drill track, a writing retreat off the coast of Naples and her love of Almodóvar films

‘I forgive the girl and boy for what they’ve done. If I didn’t, the hate would eat away at me’: Esther Ghey on life after the murder of her daughter Brianna

Transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death by two 15-year-olds. The killers had been radicalised on the dark web, while the victim was trapped in an online world of her own. Now her mother has become friends with the parent of one of the murderers

Judith Butler: ‘Swimming is the closest thing I have to a religion’

The philosopher, 68, tells Michael Segalov about kayaks capsizing, imitating trees, left-wing schisms and how instead of being stony-faced and serious, they like to clown around

‘Cancel culture? We should stop it. End of story’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on backlash, writer’s block – and her new baby twins

It’s been 11 years since she published a novel. In that time, the author has lost both parents, seen Trump become president twice – and finally returned to fiction after a bruising reaction to her comments on gender

Geraldine Brooks: ‘I felt like I was faking my life’

The Australian Pulitizer-prize winning author on love, grief and pretending to be normal while feeling anything but

‘Let’s start a chapter of our own’: the couples who found love in bookshops

Lovers living out their Notting Hill fantasies, shy readers whose eyes met at a book club … readers give us a tour of the romance section for Valentine’s Day

Fancy a stroll? Across Europe, young people like me are finding friends by walking our cities

We are the post-pandemic flâneurs: stepping out of social media silos to meet people and connect with the world around us

Love in Exile by Shon Faye review – lessons in romance

Is heartbreak all capitalism’s fault? Faye mixes the personal and political in this exposing but generous memoir

Bridget Jones is a welcome reminder of a much more comfortable era

She worried about her drinking, smoking and weight – but there was never any doubt she would have a job and be able to pay her rent. It’s a very different world for gen Z, writes Zoe Williams

Winter wonder: Jeanette Winterson and others reveal why the cold has them under its spell

Too dark, too cold – winter’s charms aren’t as obvious as summer’s brassy joys. But for Robert Macfarlane, Alice Oswald, Poppy Okotcha and others, this is a rich season. Here, they offer ways to lean into it, with an introduction by Jeanette Winterson

How Toni Morrison’s characters modeled womanhood and confinement in their dress

How people dress – their bodies, their communities, their houses – mattered a great deal to the Nobel prize winner

The kindness of strangers: I lost my Kindle – and the person who found it loved my book collection

We exchanged emails and arranged to meet. One friend quipped that if we got married it’d make a magnificent story

‘Stuff happens and it sucks’: Brooke Shields on abuse, ageing and telling her own story

Brooke Shields, sexualised child star at just 11, is no stranger to tabloid controversy. Now 59, perhaps now she can tell us how she ended up so… normal?

Nobody could help me with my psychosis. Then I was sent to jail for holding up a shop with a toy gun

I didn’t remember committing my crime but I knew I had fallen through the cracks of the system. Could prison really be my salvation?