What to read
Tim AdamsMusic booksAll You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines review – from best man to muckrakerIn this ‘director’s cut’ of their 1983 book, which Paul McCartney burned, a former Beatles employee and a music writer appear preoccupied with stirring up scandal around the band’s split
- ‘I’d love a scathing review’Novelist Percival Everett on American Fiction and rewriting Huckleberry FinnHis work triumphed at the Oscars, but the Booker-shortlisted author isn’t interested in acclaim. He talks to the Guardian about race, taking on Mark Twain and why there’s nothing worse than preaching to the choir