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A look at wrath, gluttony and the rest from a medical perspective offers valuable insights - but is disease a good guide to normal functioning?

This frustrating novella by a star of global fiction imagines the formative years of Mexico's first Indigenous president, exiled to New Orleans in the 1850s ...

The award-winning US poet and author of works like Black Feeling, Black Talk and Those Who Ride the Night Winds has died after a third cancer diagnosis ...

Richard Adams Carey's study of the caviar industry scores a narrow victory over How to Dungeon Master Parenting ...

A sonnet about disappointed love is enlivened by a large imagination and technical fluency of great vitality ...

Writers JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk are among the laureates imploring the prime minister to act on behalf of the British Egyptian political prisoner ...

The American author sets out to write a "feelgood" romance that honours her commitment to language as a charged, living entity ...

A forensic study of the Lucy Letby case leaves many questions unanswered ...

From a radical retelling of Huckleberry Finn to Al Pacino's autobiography, novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts - and the volumes they would love to find in their own stocking ...

A new Sally Rooney, the return of le Carré's George Smiley, plus real-life revelations from Al Pacino and Salman Rushdie ... Guardian critics pick the year's best fiction, memoir, children's books and more ...