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Society books

July 2024

  • A nurse standing looking at notes in a maternity ward.

    Observer book of the week
    Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women’s Health by Sophie Harman – the war on wellbeing

    The British academic offers a devastating diagnosis of the forces that have shaped female healthcare worldwide, along with a powerful prescription for change to remedy the failings, inequalities and injustices
  • The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour<br>LOS ANGELES - OCTOBER 1: Little Richard appears on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. Image dated October 1, 1971. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

    The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage review – pop’s coming out period

    In this erudite book with broad appeal, the renowned critic moves deftly from insightful analysis of pivotal artists and songs into the wider social history of the era that changed culture

    • In brief: Same As It Ever Was; Hello Beautiful; The Golden Rule – review

    • The big idea
      The big idea: why your brain needs other people

    • Sexed by Susanna Rustin review – the fraught battle for feminism

June 2024

  • FILE PHOTO: Ghislaine Maxwell trial in New York<br>FILE PHOTO: Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell sits as the guilty verdict in her sex abuse trial is read in a courtroom sketch in New York City, U.S., December 29, 2021. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File Photo

    The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – a voice for the powerless

  • Women fighting for their rights during the 1970 s

    Sexed by Susanna Rustin review – a new history of British feminism

  • Our vivid teenage years can define our adulthood.

    Book of the day
    Coming of Age by Lucy Foulkes review – the truth about teenagers

  • Young men at La Caverne, a Soho bar and club, July 1955.

    Book of the day
    Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 review – when being gay meant going underground

  • Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into

  • Book of the day
    Straight Acting by Will Tosh review – out on stage

  • The Atomic Human by Neil Lawrence review – return of the Terminator

  • I’m an expert on adolescence: here’s why a smartphone ban isn’t the answer, and what we should do instead

  • Book of the day
    The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy review – two decades of fire

  • Book of the day
    Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell review – a roadmap to the new normal

  • The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India by Alpa Shah – review

  • If You Live to 100, You Might As Well Be Happy by Rhee Kun Hoo review – life begins at 80

May 2024

  • The US-Mexico border wall in Campo, California.

    Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer review – seeking sanctuary

    A sweeping and deeply reported analysis of US immigration policy, in all its hypocrisy
  • Fast by the Horns explores the 1980 riot in St Pauls.

    Fast by the Horns by Moses McKenzie review – Bristol’s burning

    A Rastafari’s tale of belonging and betrayal set in 1980s England
  • Green Ampelmann pedestrian signal on a street in the former East Berlin in Germany<br>2BWACYX Green Ampelmann pedestrian signal on a street in the former East Berlin in Germany

    Book of the day
    Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – the past isn’t a foreign place

    The historian’s wide-ranging exploration of wistful reminiscence cautiously champions its benefits to society and challenges the view that it is dangerous and foolish
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