The Guardian: Guardian review

Following the publication of The Hugo Young Papers, Alan Rusbridger reflects on the legacies of the legendary columnist

I have corralled myself into this writing space. To stop me from fleeing? Or to keep out the world? Both, probably

A gag per page; anti-tourism; evening classes in novel-writing; and glad to be Gladwell

Review: Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
Can another biography really surprise us? Absolutely, says Richard Eyre

Review:The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
John Mullan on languages in The Map of Love

Review: Apache, by Ed Macy, read by Sam Hazeldine
Apache reminds Sue Arnold that soldiers truly are a breed apart

Review: Pilgrim State, written and read by Jacqueline Walker with Adjoa Andoh, Gareth Armstrong and others
Sue Arnold finds a survival story to warm the chilliest heart

Review: A Prickly Affair by Hugh Warwick
Alfred Hickling enjoys a study of our relationship with hedgehogs

Review: Quantum by Manjit Kumar
A brilliant guide to quantum physics impresses Steven Poole

Review: A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland
Kathleen Jamie is impressed by reflections on a quiet revolution

Review: Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge
Florence Nightingale lived a heroic life of service to the common good, says Miranda Seymour

Review: Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West by Andrew Roberts
Mark Mazower enjoys a portrait of the politicians and generals who defeated Nazi Germany

Review: Just After Sunset by Stephen King
The dead are all around in Stephen King's latest collection. By M John Harrison

Review: The Atmospheric Railway by Shena Mackay
Jenny Turner celebrates the sinister, hilarious vision of Shena Mackay

The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams
Philip Ardagh on the literary debut of a Little Britain star

Review: Ashes of the Amazon by Milton Hatoum
Manaus forms an exotic backdrop to a bitter tale, finds Maya Jaggi

Review: Hide Now by Glyn Maxwell
Adam Newey searches for meaning in a subtle collection

Nicholas Wroe talks to the Australian novelist about returning to his most celebrated subject

From Lucky Jim to Emma

Review: The Exclamation Mark by Anton Chekov

Review: Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Nicholas Lezard finds some timely tales from the wheel of fortune

Review: Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot by Anna Beer
This biography shows how remarkable it was for an old blind man to produce Paradise Lost

In the third of our interviews with shortlisted authors we talk to Steve Toltz

Review: The Triumph of the Political Class by Peter Oborne
This is a serious, fearless tirade against politicians and New Labour

Review: The Letters of Noël Coward, edited by Barry Day
Coward's letters are every bit as chatty and larded with the word "darlingest" as could be hoped

Review: The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill

Review: Jumping the Cracks by Victoria Blake

Hitler's classmate | The Middletown mystery | On the wing | A sort of science fiction | In praise of Jonathan Ross | Slave-owning Jefferson | Bring back squalor

Simon Gray's mortality, Toni Morrison's language and the Beats' beginnings

Hilary Mantel on getting the facts right in historical fiction

Poetry is not merely a luxury for the middle classes - it offers a tough language for those with hard lives. As a TS Eliot festival opens in London, Jeanette Winterson remembers how his poems helped her through her troubled teenage years

As a new film about the infamous Red Army Faction relights old fires, Philip Oltermann charts the cultural impact of a revolutionary movement that has long fascinated writers, actors and film-makers

With Little Dorrit the BBC has dramatised a fable for our times. AS Byatt pays tribute to a terrifying, wonderful novel

Under the jacarandas,
The pigeons and the gulls...

I didn't want Mr Openshaw to see me cry

A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie Kay

John Crace condenses The Painted Veil