Books

A new book on the role of the whips office raises an exasperating question about the role of politicians

The Eat, Pray, Love author is back with a shocking memoir that reveals far more about her glib manipulations than she understands

This year’s long list boasts parental bonds, family dynamics and an entry I cannot get my head around

Today’s worldwide boom follows decades of resistance – but the battle for equal status is far from won

Winnie M Li’s novel brought back painful memories of sibling resentment and hurt

Solarpunk began as a sci-fi vision of a beautiful, sustainable planet. Now it inspires Hollywood movies and real-life tech. Can it change the world?

Jonathan Buckley’s female protagonist only exists to validate the male characters around her. She’s utterly unbelievable

In What We Can Know, our greatest living novelist sees the UK slip beneath the waves – and looks for light in a drowned world

Should I have felt betrayed when I discovered the autobiography I’d read was mostly fiction?

A wave of female writers use pitch-black fairytales to address the evil in Argentina’s past

Every new book by Tom Cox is a treat and his third novel, Everything Will Swallow You, is no exception

Four generations of women inhabit a landscape of wolves, fascists and devils in the Catalan writer’s haunting novel

As his own star rises, global noir writer Nicolás Obregón is raging at the state of the world

A book that collects the dreams of Germans – Jews and gentiles alike – during the 1930s

Benjamin Markovits’s Booker-longlisted The Rest of Our Lives wants us to cheer on a tedious man’s journey of self-discovery. I loathed every moment

A crime writer’s memoir goes from New Jersey to Venice via Iran and LA – and features an apology to her most famous character

Book festivals, ragebait journalism and city boys in the country get eviscerated in Natasha Brown’s brilliant Universality

New York in the 1980s was riven by disharmony, corruption and excess. Jonathan Mahler’s new book explains how the city forged a would-be dictator

A selection of New World writers and editors choose the books they can’t stop recommending

Tension is simmering as the two countries celebrate their independence days this week. Four books explore how their relationship curdled into conflict

What do Patrick Süskind’s classic and Asako Yuzuki's contemporary novel tell us about the philosophy of smell and taste?

From Perfection and Careless People to Stephen King and Katie Price, your summer reading is sorted

Thanks to Trump, the convicted sex offender is getting more consideration than her and Jeffrey Epstein’s victims ever did

Oprah Winfrey made me love Wally Lamb. But with The River is Waiting for Me, the spark has gone

An unashamed member of the educated liberal elite, he parlayed his wit and access into a career of TV interviews and debates

A book that goes from Berlin to Bogotá on a hallucinatory walk through space, time, and memory

The spy turned novelist arrived in search of new plots and left with an understanding that eludes some natives

Chechen human rights investigator Natalia Estemirova defied Russia - and was killed. Now her daughter is keeping her fight alive

Rosamund Pike delivers a quite astonishing performance as a Crown Court Judge wrestling with the legal system's shoddy handling of sexual assault cases

Calleja is part of a new, very different generation of translators, as her experimental memoir makes clear

Eight years after his death, a reissue of Kitchen Confidential still burns with wit and rage

A mission to read the complete works in chronological order reveals unexpected joys and an antidote to theatrical woes