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From the threat of superintelligent AI to the dangers of overdiagnosis; plus the evolution of language and the restless genius of Francis Crick ...

The British-Ukrainian writer, who died last month, won the prize's 25th-anniversary Vintage Bollinger award for 2005 novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, while Rosanna Pike took this year's prize for A Little Trickerie ...

The revolutionary spirit in politics and architecture; histories of free speech and civil war; plus how the Tories fell apart and Starmer won ...

Alison Bechdel and Joe Sacco return; plus Black Country cowboys, vengeful gods and an angling classic reimagined ...

Mick Herron's Slow Horses, Belinda Bauer's obsessive world of bird egg collectors, Uketsu's innovative Japanese detective mystery - and more ...

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

Sami Tamimi celebrates Palestine's culinary heritage, Helen Goh uncovers the psychological benefits of baking and Roopa Gulati reveals tricks used in the best Indian kitchens ...

A new read-aloud favourite, doughnuts with world-conquering ambitions, high fantasy from Katherine Rundell, and more ...

The return of Nobel laureate Han Kang; film-making under the Nazis; stuck in a time loop; Scandinavian thrills; and essential stories from postwar Iraq ...

A sharply satirical attack on unevenly applied 19th-century laws to enforce religious observance still bites today ...