The best books about the Covid-19 pandemic newstatesman.com The pandemic is far from over, but after 18 months of living with Covid, the crisis requires some reflection. Whether you’re looking for an emotive personal a...

Rachel Cusk’s singular novel stands out on wide-ranging Booker longlist theguardian.com Second Place is both timeless and up-to-the minute, with big names Richard Powers and Kazuo Ishiguro among strong international finalists...

12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson review standard.co.uk Jeanette Winterson’s essays about the future of artificial intelligence are scary, fascinating and peppered with her wry humour...

Area Dads Have Been Hanging Out a Lot, Will Publish a Book Soon esquire.com A new book from Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama will tackle everything from marriage to masculinity to the state of the American experiment....

Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world theguardian.com Stewart Brand was at the heart of 60s counterculture and is now revered as a tech visionary whose book anticipated the web. Carole Cadwalladr met him...

‘A madman with millions of followers’: what the new Trump books tell us theguardian.com Books show how close the US came to disaster, and document an unprecedented moment in US history that is not yet over...