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It’s time for the witch hunt against JK Rowling to end

You don’t have to agree with every aspect of Rowling’s politics to find the demonisation of her worrying – and…

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The year’s publishing highlights, including novels by Ali Smith, Jonathan Coe and Ottessa Moshfegh.

By Leo Robson

The desertion of the working class and the rise of identity politics contributed to Labour’s decline – but such failures…

By Robert Halfon

What impact will Africa’s young and fast-growing population have on the world?

By Philippa Nuttall

From politics and science to history and pop, the essential books for the year ahead.

By Tom Gatti

Notes From Deep Time by Gordon, Solid Ivory by Ivory, We Don’t Know Ourselves by O’Toole and Sour Grapes by…

By India Bourke, Ellys Woodhouse, Tom Gatti and Lola Seaton

A century ago the philosopher anatomised a Spain fractured by separatisms. What can his prescient polemic tell us about the…

By Harry Eyres

For the author bell hooks, who has died aged 69, radical politics and gentleness of spirit went hand in hand.

By Elif Shafak