‘I made curtains on the train’: the commuters livening up their journeys
From a velomobile to inline skating and audiobooks, six people reveal how travelling to work is no chore
Dame Shirley Conran obituary
Bestselling author of Lace and Superwoman and women’s editor for the Daily Mail and the Observer
If you live to 100, you might as well be happy: what poverty, jail and war have taught author Rhee Kun Hoo
Joy is all around us, according to the bestselling South Korean author. Here’s what he has learned from a long and often hard life
Anne Lamott on love, sobriety and reaching 70: ‘All I’ve learned, I’ve learned because the abyss swallowed me’
The American author’s 20th book reads as a series of parables on grace. In an interview, she reflects on a life she thought she wouldn’t get to live
Read me a story: why reading out loud is a joy for adults as well as kids
Sarah Manavis and her partner have a guilty secret. What they love to do most of all in private is… read out loud to each other. And, as she’s discovered, it has many surprising benefits
On my radar: Andrew O’Hagan’s cultural highlights
The novelist on a comedic TikTok sensation, the importance of a good suit and his favourite educational app
A new start after 60: after a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop!
After a successful career as a talent agent – representing Michael Parkinson, Ulrika Jonsson and Adam Ant – Melanie Cantor became disillusioned with TV. So she took up writing – and refused to give up on her passion.
‘Why has my uterus fallen into my vagina?’: Emily Oster’s new book demystifies common pregnancy complications
The Unexpected, the latest book by the economics professor, examines the uncomfortable and embarrassing parts of pregnancy that no one talks about
The experts: librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books
Do you love reading – but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again
Three things with Bruce Pascoe: ‘My teeth were all over the place, like a dropped Mahjong set’
In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the Dark Emu author talks about his childhood tooth brace – and what he grabbed from his property as a bushfire bore down
Readers reply: who has been treated most unfairly by history?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
‘I now know that anything is possible’: from a women’s shelter to Cambridge University
No matter how low you sink, your dreams can still come true: one woman’s inspirational story, by Maxine Nwaneri
‘I wanted sexual adventures, I didn’t want to fall in love’: Molly Roden Winter on her astonishing memoir of an open marriage
An open marriage, dating sites, sex with strangers – now the writer’s fearsomely frank and funny memoir about the joys of polyamory has become an instant bestseller
Who has been treated most unfairly by history?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
‘Thirsty, wet, desolate. The dream’: One Day author David Nicholls on the peculiar pleasure of long, soggy solo walks
The bestselling author has always hated being on his own, so why does he spend a few days every year hiking alone in the wind and rain? Just don’t call it a midlife crisis …