Richard Wigg obituary
Other lives: Distinguished foreign correspondent for the Times for 27 years
Richard Garner obituary
Other lives: Long-serving education journalist who worked for the Daily Mirror and Independent
To All the Boys: PS I Still Love You review – entertaining romcom sequel
Lara Jean finds that dating her dream boyfriend isn’t as blissful as she expected in To All the Boys I Loved Before follow-up
Marc Alexander obituary
Other lives: Poet and prolific novelist who wrote more than 70 books
The State of Secrecy by Richard Norton-Taylor review – spooks in the spotlight
In a penetrating and entertaining memoir, the Guardian’s former intelligence reporter exposes the folly of excessive state secrecy
John Sweeney: ‘You can’t be as neurotic as the BBC and cope with someone like me’
The investigative journalist famed for high-volume encounters with ‘baddies’ of all shades was let go by the corporation. But he’s turned it into material for a novel
Publishing has to keep up with the world, not the other way round
A survey of diversity – or lack of it – in the US books industry makes for dismal reading once more
Stephen King quits Facebook over false claims in political ads
Horror novelist says that the social network has allowed false information to be disseminated, and that he is also concerned about users’ privacy
Mary Beard sits for naked portrait in new BBC programme
The academic’s latest TV show investigates the line between art and pornography
Peter Hobday obituary
Broadcaster and popular stalwart of Radio 4’s Today programme whose dismissal in 1996 infuriated listeners
On my radar: Emma Jane Unsworth’s cultural highlights
The novelist on William Blake, crying through Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and an insightful poem about teenage masturbation
The Fixers review: Trump, Cohen, Stormy Daniels and the porn star presidency
A guide to ‘the bottom-feeders, crooked lawyers and gossip mongers who created the 45th president’ simply demands to be read
On my radar: Jonathan Coe’s cultural highlights
The comic novelist on the genius of jazz organist Barbara Dennerlein and his love of Munich
‘It’s radical’: how Sally Rooney’s Normal People caught a TV moment
As the trailer for BBC 12-parter is released, the production team say the time is right for Sally Rooney’s novel
Roger Scruton: a brilliant philosopher and self-conscious controversialist
His writings may have earned ‘the hatred of decent liberals everywhere’ as Scruton himself once said, but even his ideological opponents are his beneficiaries