1. Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia Ian Foxley at home in Yorkshire. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Guardian “What neither man knew was that... Read more »
The award-winning Israeli author David Grossman has described his country’s campaign in Gaza as a genocide and said he now “can’t help” but use the term. “I ask myself: how did we... Read more »
Zadie SmithFor me summer reading is about immersion. Three novels fully absorbed me recently. Flesh by David Szalay is a very smart and stylish novel about the 1%, filtered through the life... Read more »
David Szalay, 51, grew up in London and now lives in Vienna with his wife, having previously moved in 2009 to Hungary, his father’s birthplace. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the... Read more »
David Nicholls, Dolly Alderton, Caroline O’Donoghue and Kaliane Bradley are among the writers in the running to have a pig named after their book. The authors have been shortlisted for the Bollinger... Read more »
It was mostly in the small hours that I first read David Goodhartâs new book on caring. By coincidence, it arrived as I was trying to look after my dying father at... Read more »
In 2011, the psychologist (and Nobel laureate) Daniel Kahneman proposed that we humans are bimodal animals capable only of two modes of thought. One (which he called âSystem 1â) is fast, instinctive... Read more »
You could see Peaceâs new book as his third in a series of novels centred on football bosses â the Manageriad? â after The Damned Utd (about Brian Clough) and Red or... Read more »
In early 2015, a couple of months after his mother died, David Baddiel wrote to his younger brother, Dan, a sometime taxi driver in New York, setting out his plans for âa... Read more »