Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick review – the kids aren’t all right
Against a backdrop of Thatcher and the Falklands, this sharp debut punctures the facade of life at a middle-England grammar school
Five years on from the pandemic, how has Covid changed our world?
We asked a group of experts on politics, trade, literature, psychology, work and more: what has been the most surprising or shocking consequence of Covid-19 in your field?
Ministers urged to add audiobooks to England’s new schools curriculum
Charity calls for move after poll finds ‘crisis’ levels of reading for pleasure and rise in 8- to 18-year-olds enjoying audio
The one change that worked: I found an escape from online life by swapping my home office for the library
I can find essential and unusual facts for my arts journalism in the dusty old tomes – information not readily available on Google. And, as I did as a child, I lose myself in a world of books ...
The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
Peter Honey obituary
Other lives: Behavioural psychologist, management consultant and author of more than 40 books
Alan Carling obituary
Other lives: Respected professor of sociology at the University of Bradford
Bad Education by Matt Goodwin review – a lapsed liberal’s war on ‘woke’ lecture
The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuance
Learning to read in a foreign language has taught me to embrace ambiguity – one sentence at a time
In striving to understand Japanese books and comics, I’ve adopted the habits of a weightlifter: I find my comfort zone then push beyond it
‘It’s been life-changing’: meet the adults making big changes later in life
Some people never learn to read or swim or even cook as children - but with the right spirit there’s still time to make things right
Morag Styles obituary
First professor of children’s poetry at Cambridge, who also worked to promote the teaching, dissemination and understanding of Caribbean poetry
Would you drop Of Mice and Men from the exam syllabus? The answer isn’t black and white
The book will no longer be studied at GCSE in Wales because many find the racial slurs upsetting. That’s culture war fodder, but it shouldn’t be, says author and broadcaster Nels Abbey
Keith Rutter obituary
Other lives: Historian and numismatist of ancient Greece and wrote the standard work on the coinages of ancient Naples and Campania
Martin Corrick obituary
Other lives: Teacher and writer who set up Gosport Men’s Shed
The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis
With degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture