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The anti-Baillie Gifford mob wants to police art. Writers must not give in

In cutting ties with the firm, literary festivals have fallen prey to the worst sort of playground bully.

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Also featuring Going Home by Tom Lamont and The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher.

By Anna Leszkiewicz, Michael Prodger and Zuzanna Lachendro

Rose Boyt’s memoir of her controlling father reveals a relationship defined by cruelty and shame.

By Sue Prideaux

Family-owned firms now sit at the heart of America’s fraying democracy.

By William Davies

The novelist’s fans revere her ruthless restraint – but in Parade it leads to a narrative dead end.

By Megan Nolan

Olivia Laing and Richard Mabey reveal the joys, crises and politics of making a garden of one’s own.

By Kathleen Jamie

Published between the wars, Woolf’s essay Three Guineas still has lessons for today’s conflict-ravaged world.

By Elif Shafak

The AI boom poses a threat to copyright, privacy and human rights – but no technology should be above the…

By Marina Wheeler