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What we’re reading: Irvine Welsh, Janice Hallett and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in August

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

Irvine Welsh, Janice Hallett and Guardian readers5d ago

Share your tributes and memories of Gloria Steinem

We would like to hear your tributes and memories of Gloria Steinem – whether you met her, or appreciated her work

Guardian community team6d ago

A Death of One’s Own by Terry Eagleton review – meditations on arriving at a full stop

The literary critic brings his vast reading to bear on life’s most inescapable fact

Kathryn Hughes6d ago

Espionage, true crime and war: Baillie Gifford longlist revealed

Patrick Radden Keefe, Ben Macintyre and the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins are among the 13 authors selected for the nonfiction award

Emma Loffhagen6d ago

Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings by Jared Diamond review – how to change the course of history

The author of Guns, Germs and Steel falters in this flawed study of whether individuals really make a difference

Steven Poole2 Sept

The Bridge by Colm Tóibín review – betrayal and survival in the High Pyrenees

Deep sorrow mingles with illicit desire in this potent novella, the follow-up to a 2006 story about an isolated family in the Catalan mountains

Alexandra Harris2 Sept

Writers’ homes are sites of resistance and renewal

Letter: David Devanny on the challenges in running the late poet Charles Causley’s home in Launceston, Cornwall

1 Sept

Emily Wilson to retranslate the Odyssey from scratch

Writer who criticised Christopher Nolan film based on her 2017 translation is working on new version of Homer’s poem

Emma Loffhagen1 Sept

The man who shaped Trump: book sheds fresh light on ruthless Roy Cohn

American Scoundrel tells story of McCarthy attack dog, mob lawyer and Trump mentor – will the president be thumbing its pages?

Martin Pengelly in Washington1 Sept

Under Story by Chloe Benjamin review – this time-reversal melodrama is quantum hokum

A grieving couple who have lost their son find a way to a mirror universe where time runs backwards – but the narrative machinery is shonky and distracting

Beejay Silcox1 Sept

Anita Brookner by Hermione Lee review – an enigmatic literary great given her due

This exhaustive biography of the Booker winner brings her properly out of the shadows for the first time

Lucy Atkins1 Sept

Sir Anthony Kenny obituary

Historian of philosophy and former Roman Catholic priest who wrote and lectured on figures from Aristotle to Wittgenstein with verve and lucidity

Jane O'Grady31 Aug

Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there

A graphic novel by Melissa Chan and Badiucao imagines China and the US at war in 2035. They hope to remind young people that ‘authoritarianism everywhere is bad’

Kat Wong31 Aug

The Future Starts With Us by Gordon Brown review – the ex-PM’s recipe for beating populism

Global crises are tightly linked to how we treat each other at the local level, argues this optimistic book

Gaby Hinsliff31 Aug

Switzy by Emma Cline review – this Booker-listed account of a man’s last days is profoundly moving

Struggling with Alzheimer’s, the central character sets out on his final journey to a euthanasia clinic

Chris Power31 Aug

Malcolm Knox: ‘Trump’s name will turn to dust, just as every other dictator’s name has’

It may sound strange: satirical novels set in Stalin’s Soviet empire, by an Australian journalist, about Trump’s America. But Knox’s darkly hilarious books have arrived when global politics so often feel like a farce

Walter Marsh30 Aug

A poem by Troy Wong: ‘My djungelskog is my role model for an alternative masculinity’

Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Wong shares how his floppy Ikea stuffie is a role model for a softer, more vulnerable identity

Troy Wong30 Aug

Could this policy fix the care system and slash student debt at the same time?

Andy Burnham is in need of radical proposals. A ‘care first’ year in exchange for 50% off fees could be just what he needs

Paul Sagar30 Aug

‘Who would dare take on Elizabeth Jane Howard’s fans?’ Louisa Young on reviving the Cazalet Chronicles

The author’s new trilogy continues her aunt’s beloved family saga. What would happen next to the sprawling cast of characters ... and could she pull it off?

Louisa Young30 Aug

Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

Grammy award-winning American artist selected as 13th person to submit written work to Oslo-based project

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent29 Aug