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So older women don’t have sex?

Helen Walsh: Why, in the 21st century, is the sexually active older woman still depicted as a figure of fun?

The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye – review

J Hoberman: Jeremy Dauber's biography of Sholem Aleichem looks at how Fiddler on the Roof came to represent the ultimate Americanisation of Jewish culture

The Irish state visit was a piece of public theatre, but also a catharsis

Joseph O'Connor: The people of Ireland and England have long acknowledged their common culture. Now the politicians have caught up

Jennifer Garner: I’ll be silent guardian of Superman v Batman spoilers

Actor says she won't be spilling any more secrets about husband Ben Affleck's role as Batman in 2016 Man of Steel sequel

Venezuela protest crackdown threatens region’s democracy, warns Vargas Llosa

Exclusive: Peruvian author says Maduro regime is becoming 'messianic dictatorship' intent on spreading its influence across Latin America

Five pathways to post-capitalist ‘renaissance’ by a former oil man

Nafeez Ahmed: 'Capitalism is torpedoing our prosperity, killing our economies, threatening our children. It must be re-engineered, root and branch.'

Ten Korean writers on a country sawn in half

What can the 10 South Korean writers selected for the London Book Fair tell us about a country that has been cut in two? By Claire Armitstead

TS Eliot: guilt, desire and rebellion at respectability

Roz Kaveney: TS Eliot – part 2: Eliot's revolt from duty, and Unitarian virtue and philosophy, can, in part, be blamed on a culture of repression and ignorance

My hero: Flora Solomon by Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre: Flora Solomon's exposure of Kim Philby as a Soviet spy changed the course of British history

Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness – review

Should erotic obsession be grounds for getting away with murder? Dinah Birch on three notorious cases

Kawergosk refugee camp’s hope in the face of tragedy

Khaled Hosseini: The displaced Syrians I met in northern Iraq know the farthest extremes suffering, but are coping with great dignity

Jane Goodall blames ‘chaotic note taking’ for plagiarism controversy

Scientist revises her book Seeds of Hope after allegations 12 sections were lifted from other websites

TS Eliot: searching for sainthood amid hate speech and hurt

Roz Kaveney: TS Eliot – part 1: Some of the 20th century's finest poetry belongs to Eliot, yet any account of it must also keep track of the harm he did

James Lovelock: ‘Instead of robots taking over the world, what if we join with them?’

Stephen Moss: The maverick scientist on the advantages of nuclear power, Fukushima meltdown 'lies' – and how humans could become robo-people

Yiyun Li: ‘This is my generation. It’s what we experienced’

The author of Kinder Than Solitude talks to Liz Hoggard about Tiananmen Square and the psychological violence people inflict

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  • The Guide #237: Fab 5 Freddy, the street artist at the heart of New York’s creative zenith
  • The Guardian view on the Women’s Library at 100: a cause for celebration but not complacency
  • David Judge obituary
  • Clare Gittings obituary
  • The best recent poetry – review roundup
  • Sarah Hall: ‘Everyone wangs on about Anna Karenina – I’ve never been able to finish it’
  • Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden review – are criminals born or made?
  • Sororicidal by Edwina Preston review – a tale of two sisters tinged with danger
  • ‘Slavery bounded his life’: Thomas Jefferson’s views on race – in his own words
  • Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry audiobook review – an extraordinary chronicle of terminal illness
  • I did not tell my sister that our other sister was dying. Silence was the right choice, yet murky and painful
  • The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley review – the laureate of bad relationships
  • A feud ‘straight out of Succession’, a rental thriller and an ‘absolute ripper’: the best Australian books out in April
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  • JD Vance announces a new memoir about his conversion to Catholicism
  • Bold concepts, loose ends in Ibram X Kendi’s Chain of Ideas
  • Under Water by Tara Menon review – love, loss and a longing for the ocean
  • Baldwin by Nicholas Boggs review – the relationships that drove a genius
  • Let’s get metaphysical! Existentialist cinema is back, if anyone cares
  • Tennessee library director fired after refusing to move LGBTQ+-themed kids’ books to adult section
  • Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children’s book
  • Does anyone think Matt Goodwin’s book on Britain’s demise is a publishing sensation? I mean, other than him
  • The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review
  • ‘Hope, insight and burning humanity’: 2026 International Booker prize shortlist announced
  • Fainting in front of Michael Jackson and feuding with Monica: inside Brandy’s jaw-dropping memoir
  • A Rebel and a Traitor by Rory Carroll review – the extraordinary story of Roger Casement
  • Transcription by Ben Lerner review – a stunning exploration of technology and storytelling

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