Books

The newest Potter tops fiction (again), and a new title dethrones Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air on the non-fiction list

Profanity sinks deep emotional roots in our brains. When words develop duelling meanings, the bad stuff almost always wins out.

What cracked the top of our fiction list? As if you can’t guess. Meanwhile, Paul Kalanithi still rules the non-fiction world.

This Mortal Coil takes a provocative look at the problem with medical reductionism

Jay Hosking’s Three Years With The Rat is unsettling like Paul Auster, complex like David Mitchell—and a bit unwieldy

Jessie Burton’s historical fiction is elevated to fine literature

New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin finds an engrossing narrative in an old crime story

Paul Kalanithi tops the non-fiction list (again), and the latest Harry Potter crushes the competition on the fiction list

The insanely popular wizardly tale comes to an end with a truly shape-shifting finale in a script that J.K Rowling didn’t directly pen

The U.S. president once said of the PM that he never wanted ‘to see that boring son of a bitch again’