Bloomsbury India pulls Delhi riots book after anti-Muslim controversy
The bias of blessings that are blind to love
Further reading
Matt Haig on the best books to build mental resilience
The Book in the Cathedral by Christopher de Hamel review – adventures of a manuscript sleuth
July 2020
White Too Long review: how race trumped American Christianity
Robert Jones wants churches to engage in reckoning, restitution and repentance. But incrementalism has much to recommend it too
Other lives
Anthony Meredith obituary
Other lives: Jesuit priest and scholar of the early church who was a member of staff at Farm Street church, Mayfair
Book of the day
Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum review – when politics ends friendships
Shaming Boris Johnson and other friends who shifted further right ... a personal survey of nationalisms, discussed alongside The Light That Failed by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes
May 2020
Peter Dronke obituary
Scholar of medieval Latin who shone light on Hildegard of Bingen and other female writers of the Middle Ages
For God and Country review: Christian case for Trump is a thin read indeed
Amid the evasions and distortions lies evidence that Ralph Reed knows, really, that religion and politics can mix to noble ends – just not under this president
Observer book of the week
Pandemic! by Slavoj Žižek; Where Is God in a Coronavirus World? by John Lennox – review
A philosopher and a Christian evangelist try to make sense of the current crisis
April 2020
My favourite book as a kid
My favourite book as a kid: Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn
Dorothy Day review: biography of a radical rebel is the masterpiece she deserves
Sunday best: London's faithful in their finery – in pictures
The forgotten French tapestry with lessons for our apocalyptic times
Book of the day
Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell review – how to survive the End
The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis review – pontiff who wants walls to tumble down
A book that changed me
A book that changed me: the elusive perfection of For the Time Being
Mark O’Connell
March 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 novels and stories about shame
The Guardian Books podcast
Who was St Paul? With Christos Tsiolkas and Tom Holland – books podcast
February 2020
Inventory by Darran Anderson review – a childhood in Derry
A troubled Northern Ireland childhood recounted in objects – floppy disk, cassette, toy soldier
