Deborah Orr obituary
Editor of the Guardian’s Weekend magazine who went on to become a trenchant, witty and much admired columnist
The Glossy Years by Nicholas Coleridge review – the rise and rise of a gilded youth
Condé Nast supremo Nicholas Coleridge’s autobiography reveals a genial figure not afraid to name-drop
Ronan Farrow book on sale in Australia despite legal threat from journalist Dylan Howard
One online distributor has withdrawn the #MeToo memoir, but other stores have stocked it, and the publisher insists it will not be withdrawn
Cancelled for sadfishing: the top 10 words of 2019
From people becoming a proper noun to woke’s use as an insult, we pick our key words of the year
A Day Like Today by John Humphrys review – ‘I like arguing’
The combative broadcaster’s memoir mixes engaging snapshots of his early career with some score-settling and a robust defence of his interviewing style
Emily Maitlis: it’s increasingly hard to get straight answers on Newsnight
Presenter tells of politicians who admit they don’t believe their own replies and others who shut down debate in three words
Ed Needham: ‘Top editors’ jobs have all vanished’
The founder and editor of literary magazine Strong Words on his appetite for tales of financial chicanery and why he won’t be returning to Austen
Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy’
What began as advertising is now a threat to freedom and democracy argues the author and scholar. Time to wake up - and fight for a different digital future
The Personal History of David Copperfield review – Iannucci relishes the absurdity
The London film festival opened with Armando Iannucci’s larger-than-life adaptation of the Dickens crowdpleaser, starring Dev Patel as Copperfield
Nicholas Coleridge: colossus of the glossy mag
Gatecrashing royal parties, Rupert Everett cleaning his flat… after 30 years with Condé Nast, retiring chairman Nicholas Coleridge had plenty of material for his gossipy new memoir
Why Instagram’s biggest book accounts aren’t your usual influencers
They stage backdrops and match book covers to flowers. But they’re also avid readers. Could they actually be living the lives they promote online?
Send us your questions for John Humphrys
The Today presenter has asked his final question. Now it’s your turn to quiz the BBC inquisitor…
Stella Count shows gender bias in book reviews is changing
Within six years of its introduction, nearly half of all book reviews in Australia in 2018 were of works by female authors
‘I have to put my phone in the wardrobe’: how do authors deal with social media?
Matt Haig, Danez Smith, Ayòbámi Adébáyò and other writers on staying focused and their top tips for switching off
A book, then a play, now Litvinenko’s story is coming back to the small screen
The murdered Russian dissident’s case is to become an ITV drama. And the National Gallery gets first dibs on a baroque masterpiece