Archaeologists home in on Homeric clues as Turkey declares year of Troy

Work is accelerating at site on Hisarlık Hill, formerly a ‘ruin of a ruin’, and a museum will open next year

Unbelievable review: Katy Tur’s Trump tale relives an utterly insane campaign

NBC reporter writes with the bravery and wit she showed as Trump and his fans attacked her. Perhaps inadvertently, she also exposes the worrying decline of broadcast news itself

The wrong sort of voter? There’s no such thing, AC Grayling

Loose canon: Grayling revives a fear of the mob that’s as old as Plato. Brexit convinced our elite that ordinary people were not intelligent enough to know what’s best for them

Nancy Hatch Dupree obituary

Conservationist and champion of Afghanistan’s people and culture

Max Tegmark: ‘Machines taking control doesn’t have to be a bad thing’

The artificial intelligence expert’s new book, Life 3.0, urges us to act now to decide our future, rather than risk it being decided for us

Campaigner will donate first Jane Austen £10 note to women’s shelter

Caroline Criado-Perez, who forced Bank of England to put a woman on new banknote, says it will feel amazing to hold one

Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot review – the thrill and danger of a new left politics

With neoliberalism in crisis, it’s time to emphasise the importance to people of belonging and co-operation, argues this optimistic call to action

First person in line at Hillary Clinton book signing regrets not voting in 2016

An estimated 1,000 Clinton supporters flocked to New York’s Union Square, where their beloved candidate was due to unveil her explosive new memoir

Poppies of Iraq review – the ruins of a lost childhood

Brigitte Findakly’s moving memoir, drawn by Lewis Trondheim, captures a more innocent time both for herself and the home country she had to give up

Hillary Clinton’s new memoir compares Trump’s ‘war on truth’ to Orwell’s 1984

The former presidential candidate’s new book, What Happened, tries to come to terms with her election defeat and likens Trump to the dystopian classic

Stephen King’s It breaks highest-grossing horror record at the US box office

Bill Skårsgard’s demonic clown slaughtered the competition, taking more than double the previous record for a horror film’s opening weekend

A Sinner in Mecca review – Islam, homosexuality and the hope of tolerance

In a book subtitled ‘A Gay Muslim’s Hajj of Defiance’, Parvez Sharma’s pilgrimage leads him to consider Isis, Wahabbism and the true nature of his faith

Kate Millett obituary

Radical feminist writer best known for her pioneering 1970 book Sexual Politics

Ex Libris: New York Public Library review – the restless mind of the city

A treasured US institution opens itself to the painstaking view of fly-on-the-wall master Frederick Wiseman, who finds enlightenment, humour, compassion and soul within its walls

My Cat Yugoslavia review – the refugee experience as surreal comic fable

Pajtim Statovci’s debut novel flits between genres to create a memorably disconcerting tale about life as an outsider in modern Europe