Children’s books with Black main characters down 8% in a year, study shows
Only 150 of 2,189 titles published in UK for young children last year focused on minority ethnic, disabled or neurodivergent characters
Extra Geography review – a wickedly funny lesson in sex, class and female friendship
A boarding-school escapade becomes a wonderfully acted coming-of-age comedy, as two best friends find their world threatened by desire and adulthood
Penny Vine obituary
Other lives: Teacher and educationist with a particular interest in emotional intelligence
Joe Harkness obituary
Writer, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency
Patricia Easterling obituary
Classical scholar and the first woman to be appointed regius professor of Greek at Cambridge University
Singapore is paying people to read books – can it fix the reading crisis?
A government scheme is giving citizens cash for spending time with a good book. We ask behavioural scientists, along with The Anxious Generation author and psychologist Jonathan Haidt, whether it’ll help make the habit stick
Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire
Ronan plays a teacher who finds a way to deal with a disruptive pupil in Jonatan Etzler’s implausible satire, but it’s not shocking or funny enough
‘Bold, brilliant, thrilling’: leading authors on the novels every school should teach
A new term, a new PM … time for a new English curriculum? We ask writers from Ben Okri to Samantha Harvey to pick books that will inspire a lifelong love of reading
‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Rotherham
Country star came to South Yorkshire town in 2007 for UK launch of the Imagination Library, her book donation scheme
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ by publisher for memoir
Simon & Schuster still plans to publish book by Cambridge academic who resigned this week amid plagiarism claims
‘I want to be ripped to shreds’: writers flock to MFAs – but does it breed elitist literature?
Thousands of budding US novelists enlist in courses each year, hoping to gain credentials that often influence who gets published
Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading?
With smartphones stealing our attention, we’re picking up fewer books than ever. A novelist shares her eight-week scheme to get you back into the habit
Don MacRaild obituary
Other lives: Historian who produced groundbreaking research on Irish Catholic and Protestant immigration, and labour history
National Year of Reading should extend to a decade, inquiry says
The education committee also proposed a National Reading Guarantee, ensuring all children have frequent opportunities to enjoy reading