Technique or temperament? The alchemy of great art is elusive — but this peek inside painters’ studios offers tantalising insights
The author loves James Baldwin, French Wordle and enjoying her ‘retirement renaissance’
A new book from the eminent statistician shifts from trivial issues of probability to the risk of getting cancer
Ex-Moscow correspondent Lucy Ash examines the complicity of the Orthodox Church in the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine
Spanning the arc of the author’s own life, this personal progress is by turns drolly self-mocking, mischievously randy and touchingly vulnerable
A writer unpacks a lifelong obsession
A young woman’s noble ambitions are compromised by the corrupting influence of money
A look at the impact of white nationalism and the far right in the Appalachias
The author follows her acclaimed 2020 novel ‘Small Pleasures’ with a portrait of extraordinary lives in 1960s suburbia
Though in my youth I never found any doors into other worlds, as an adult my dreams are providing more than I can possibly open
Kate Summerscale’s gripping analysis of the Christie crimes is also an uncompromising picture of women’s lives in postwar Britain
The US foreign policy machine in action, origins of the new cold war, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as viewed from Washington
Rebecca Hall, Arooj Aftab, Louis Fratino, and Alba and Alice Rohrwacher lead a meditative autumn arts special
Guillermo Del Toro, Ben Affleck, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, even the Pope come here for rare first editions
Peter Parker’s two-volume anthology is a meticulous portrait of prejudice and the gradual shifting of public opinion
Yael van der Wouden’s novel is powerful tale of buried guilt, repressed desire and the lasting dispossessions of the Holocaust
Neha Dixit’s vivid chronicle of an urban migrant’s struggle to survive plays out against the backdrop of modern India
The novelist loves perfume, paperweights and writing pads from Home Depot
The heir to the Roche pharmaceuticals dynasty on how corporate power can be harnessed in the quest for sustainability
Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig lay bare the financial facade — and the credulous system that believed the boasts
Jerry Brotton takes an intriguing look at the cardinal directions and what they tell us about the Earth and its inhabitants
Flawed characters and toxic chemicals are woven together in Louise Erdrich’s story of three families in a Dakota farming community
The Nobel laureate cements her reputation as one of the great storytellers of our age
Brigid Schulte makes a convincing case for a drastic overhaul of the way we earn a living
The author charts her decades-long quest — via co-working hell — to a bolt-hole above a mews house
