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Alex Clark

Alex Clark writes for the Guardian and the Observer

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  How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

  From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkersdiscuss how to navigate the future

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  Hilary Mantel championed emerging writers - a new prize in her memory will help them get published
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  Post your questions for Richard Osman and Mick Herron
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  ‘I was writing at my lowest ebb’: Scottish author Len Pennie on domestic abuse and the power of poetry
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  Book of the day

  The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai review – a dazzling epic

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  ‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues

  The Albanian author of Free and the Turkish novelist discuss the rise of populism, censorship – and how today’s conflicts all come from the unresolved trauma of the past
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  Book of the day

  The Quiet Ear by Raymond Antrobus review – growing up between two worlds

  The poet’s moving exploration of deafness, difference and identity
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  The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir

  It wasn’t the first hit memoir to tell a story of redemption inspired by the great outdoors – but could it become one of the last? Authors and publishers assess the damage

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  Book of the day

  Fair by Jen Calleja review – on the magic of translation
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  Book of the day

  Wolf Moon by Arifa Akbar review – night terrors

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  ‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life-saving transplant

  The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another. The author talks about the amazing families involved, campaigning for a better NHS, and how being a doctor frames the way she writes

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  ‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

  The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativity
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  Book of the day

  The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club by Sepideh Gholian review – like no recipe book you’ve ever read

  A political prisoner lifts the lid on the hardships and fantasies of inmates in Iran’s most notorious jail
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  ‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

  When Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, lawyer Philippe Sands was part of the prosecution. As his book about the case comes out, he talks to the Colombian novelist about literature and justice

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  Gatsby by Jane Crowther; The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson-Wheeler – Jay’s eternal hold
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  Universality by Natasha Brown review – a fabulous fable about the politics of storytelling
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  ‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
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  The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – a comedian’s chronicle of cancer

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  Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld review – sharp stories about the pleasure and pain of nostalgia
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  I Want to Talk to You by Diana Evans review – sparkling essays