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What’s on your summer reading list? We asked 6 dedicated readers

When I think about summer reading, I think about relaxing with an easy page-turner … but I also think about finally having the headspace for the more complex, challenging books that have haunted my bedside table during the busy year.

The Conversation · Dec 24, 2025

How AI is becoming a ‘game changer’ for teachers

Views on the role of artificial intelligence in education have shifted dramatically since ChatGPT launched in late 2022

The Independent UK · Jun 25, 2025

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2025

Watch on the Rhine at the Donmar Warehouse review: movingly acted but the play feels like a museum piece

A handsomly mounted production and Lillian Hellman’s play has a message that chimes with today, it just feels very dated

Evening Standard · Jan 11, 2023

‘A more anarchic city’: Darryl Pinckney on New York literary life in the 1970s

The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022