Why is ‘Cat Person’ going viral again?
The literary sensation from 2017 is trending again. But this time it’s because of a real-life story
Dick Leonard obituary
Journalist, historian and pro-European Labour MP who rebelled against his party’s whip to vote in favour of the Common Market
Guardian journalist helped me see a way out, ex-cult member recalls
Former Children of God member says simple question put to her by Walter Schwarz was life-changing
Panic As Man Burns Crumpets by Roger Lytollis review – the death of local news, read all about it
A former reporter writes with clarity and poignancy about the privilege of telling people’s stories and the managed decline of local journalism
Mike Don obituary
Other lives: Underground magazine editor and radical bookseller
Good Omens is going beyond the book? That’s not a bad sign
While Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett never wrote a sequel, they did sketch out a plot that will now form a second season. If they wanted to continue the story, I want to watch it
The Constitution of Knowledge review: defending truth from Trump
Jonathan Rauch has written an important book but the battle may require appeals to other powers
RIP Janet Malcolm, America’s finest nonfiction writer who detailed the failings of others alongside her own
The writer pioneered a superb, layered style in a series of classic books
‘We dodged a mortar round’: George Packer on America in crisis
The award-winning reporter’s new book considers threats to democracy from the right around the Capitol attack – but his view of those who seek social justice has angered some on the left
Janet Malcolm, author of The Journalist and the Murderer, dies aged 86
New Yorker writer, whose scepticism about her trade brought her both praise and blame, was also famed for studies of psychoanalysis and Sylvia Plath
Michael Wolff to publish third exposé of Trump, covering last days in office
Author of Fire and Fury’s final book on Trump, Landslide, will cover his ‘tumultuous last months at the helm of the country’
‘It is obscene’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie pens blistering essay against social media sanctimony
The novelist describes helping two writers who went on to insult her online, and condemns era of ‘angels jostling to out-angel one another’
MailOnline mocked for suggesting Didsbury is ‘no go’ area for white people
Inclusion of affluent, mainly white Manchester suburb in list of Muslim-dominated towns derided by locals
‘If publishers become afraid, we’re in trouble’: publishing’s cancel culture debate boils over
Publishing staff, in rows over authors from Mike Pence to Woody Allen, are voicing their reluctance to work on books they deem hateful. But is this really ‘younger refuseniks’, or a much older debate?
‘I’m still alive’: Gomorrah author hails court victory over mafia threats
Roberto Saviano says that a court has shown that the crime clans – whose threats forced him to live with a bodyguard – are not invincible