Black Flags: The Rise of Isis review – compelling and authoritative
Joby Warrick was awarded the Pulitzer prize for this informative study, which has the narrative drive of a thriller
It’s Trollope v the Russians at Euro 2016
From the pages of Turgenev to the football stadiums of France, we now seem to be engaged in a bizarre tussle with Putin and co
Generation Revolution review – after the Arab spring
Rachel Aspden’s intimate stories about the dilemmas faced by Egypt’s youth is both compelling and sobering
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 20 – Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)
This passionate rejection of pesticides was dismissed by many as the work of an hysterical woman when first published. Now it is seen as a pioneering text in the environmental conservation movemen
Natasha Walter: ‘Writing fiction is a less conscious act. It’s almost like breathing’
The feminist writer reveals how a planned biography of the wives of the Cambridge spies turned into her first novel
Foreigner: Migration Into Europe 2015-2016 by John Radcliffe Studio – review
These portraits of refugees at different stages of their journey reveal a calmer human spirit amid the chaos
Even a lying sext pest would be preferable to Donald Trump
Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending pics of his penis to women seems minor league when compared with the threat posed by the likely Republican candidate
Sweary Lady’s riot of invention is a well-deserved winner of the Baileys prize
The judges were right to pick Lisa McInerney, whose novel The Glorious Heresies, reveals the harsh realities of modern Ireland
Rumi film will challenge Muslim stereotypes, says Gladiator writer
David Franzoni, who wrote script for 2000 film starring Russell Crowe, to pen biopic on 13th-century Muslim poet and scholar
JK Rowling tells of anger at attacks on casting of black Hermione
Author says Noma Dumezweni is ‘best for the job’ in West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Negroland by Margo Jefferson review – life in the black upper class
A captivating memoir on the distinction between white and black privilege and how the black power movement brought on a crisis for the author
What Penguins, donkeys and moles have in common
The Isokon building in Hampstead is where the worlds of books, design and espionage collide
David Mitchell buries latest manuscript for a hundred years
Author of Cloud Atlas delivers his new work – which won’t be read until 2114 – to Oslo’s Nordmarka forest as part of the Future Library project
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World by Timothy Garton Ash – review
This urgent, encyclopedic study explores what freedom of speech means in an age of diversity
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 18 – The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)
The book that ignited second-wave feminism captured the frustration of a generation of middle-class American housewives by daring to ask ‘is this all?’