UK’s only trans philosophy professor to JK Rowling: Harry Potter helped me become a woman

Sophie-Grace Chappell says it’s only those on the right who are benefiting from the row over trans women

‘The prize of all prizes’: Teacher Kate Clanchy’s memoir wins Orwell award

Judges praise Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, which draws on three decades working in schools, as ‘moving, funny, and full of love’

Stormzy on Black Lives Matter: ‘If we weren’t oppressed, we wouldn’t be shouting’

Rapper talks to the BBC about the ‘hundreds, thousands of years of real pain’ suffered by black people

Crime fiction boom as book sales rocket past 2019 levels

With bookshops still closed in parts of the UK, sales have surpassed last year’s numbers, with 3.8m print books sold in the last week

‘Theatre was my first love’: Bernardine Evaristo on her NHS play, Twitter trolls and ‘porny’ posts

The Booker-winning writer has returned to the stage, penning a drama defending the NHS. She talks about ‘bittersweet’ success – and getting caught up in attacks on Nicola Sturgeon

‘As a black priest in the Church of England, I felt like I was invisible’

In Ghost Ship, Father Azariah France-Williams reveals the barriers and bias faced by ethnic minority clergy in the Anglican church

The UK once welcomed refugees – now we detain them indefinitely. It must end

In a few decades, welcome centres for refugees have become detention centres built on violence and humiliation. The government must shut them down, writes Kamila Shamsie

‘I stuck my foot in the door’: what it is like to be black in UK publishing

‘More African’ covers. Adding racist characters. As authors and industry insiders share their experiences, readers can see how the books they read are changed by white publishers

David Starkey dropped by publisher and university after racist remarks

HarperCollins will no longer publish the historian and Canterbury Christ Church University terminates his role after he said ‘slavery was not genocide’

England’s libraries begin to reopen but grave fears remain over long-term futures

As branches prepare to start restoring services, experts warn a ‘perfect financial storm’ will cause further closures

‘Guidelines’: you can’t enforce them, but you can blame people for not following them

There is a reason why post-lockdown ‘guidelines’ are not rules or statutes

Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards

Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo take book of the year and author of the year categories, as publishers face criticism for treatment of black authors

Charles Dickens webchat with Kathryn Hughes: your questions answered

The author of acclaimed books about eminent Victorians joined us to discuss Dickens and Our Mutual Friend, our June book on the reading group

Labour MP apologises to JK Rowling for sexual assault remark

Lloyd Russell-Moyle accused author of using her experience against trans people

Bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code to hit the stage in London

Dan Brown’s 100m-selling book is being adapted for the theatre for the first time