Williams’s Careless People is a compulsively readable account of the effects of social media on democracy. Facebook’s former director of global public policy, Wynn-Williams left the company in 2017.

Katherine Rundell Seamus Heaney wrote, “We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves”; ...

Visit the Times Bookshop to purchase the books below DAVID ABULAFIA In Courage and Compassion: A Jewish boyhood in German-occupied Greece (Berghahn), Tony Molho, a celebrated historian of Renaissance ...

368pp. Cape. £18.99. In Spring he dwells at boldly mimetic length on James’s non-starter of a relationship with Katherine, who is having a muted mid-thirties crisis of her own. Although the novel’s ...

As in Sally Rooney’s previous novels, the main characters in Intermezzo fall in love quickly, tidily and passionately. They meet, their outfits are described, they exchange clipped dialogue and are ...

336pp. Yale University Press. £25. All this was accomplished in poorly paid and often insecure employment as librarians, administrators and, ultimately, professors. Jacob was also a diplomat, part of ...

The words “I remember” echo like a chorus through Siân Hughes’s debut novel, Pearl. For its narrator, Marianne, however, this act is easier said than done. Her mother, Margaret, disappeared when she ...

Top of Barbara Kingsolver’s list of writing tips (compiled in 2015 for Writers Write): quit smoking in the hope of growing old. Why? “It takes a long time ...

Geoff Dyer is known for his stylish sentences and diverse subject matter. He has written fiction, nonfiction and essays. He’s interested in film, art, photography, jazz and, above all, writers and ...

Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...

In Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster called his subject “one of the moister areas of literature – irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp … it is bounded by two ...

What Jesus did not say was “The rich ye will have always with you”. It was not simply that the rich had no more chance of getting to heaven than a camel ...