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Drawing on China and Confucian culture, two books make the case against political equality via top-down rule and meritocracy
Risk-taking novel chronicles loss, guilt and the desperation of a grieving drug addict
A change of authorship grants the character the gift of immortality
Jelena Subotic asks why some eastern European countries take a different view of the Holocaust
Guinevere Glasfurd’s climate fable unites Constable, Mary Shelley and a volcano that shook the world
A study of conduct in the banking industry points — unfairly — to market-rigging
How prejudice and discrimination blocked women’s access to jobs deemed only for men
In Jeanine Cummins’s propulsive but uneven novel, a mother and son head north to flee a cartel
Our round-up includes titles from Michael Rosen, Leila Rasheed, Roopa Farooki and Lisa Thompson
Thane Gustafson demonstrates the realpolitik of energy supply in geopolitical relations with Russia
On the trail of family roots in eastern Europe, Kapka Kassabova shares lessons about identity and conflict
The Chinese way, the volcano that shook the world and eastern Europe’s genocides
A definitive guide to a quiet hegemon that has come to dominate global economic regulation
An anthropologist turns his focus from indigenous peoples to business school teaching
Q&A with the novelist on how lessons from her grandfather enabled her to navigate life’s rough waters
Here’s what to read to understand the roots of the crisis between Iran and the US
An analysis that delivers lucid explanations of political disruption — and some stark warnings
A celebration of the late conservative philosopher’s life
Spanning 80 years, Jacqueline Woodson’s novel is set against the vexed and violent history of the US
Women protagonists (at last!) feature in tales of spies, smuggling and tackling Nazis
These two collections of Soviet-era short stories merit comparison with Primo Levi
The Albanian novelist weaves the life of his mother with his country’s tumultuous past
The late Deborah Orr’s book evokes working-class origins in a patriarchal Scottish community
Alistair Shearer shows how western interpretations of yoga have overlooked its complex history
New books counter the view of populist voters as racist. They’re just angry — and rightly so
Former start-up employee Anna Wiener exposes the tech sector’s dark side, with ‘sexism everywhere’
A translation of the political opinions shaping China’s public discourse
One of the most important books in literary history brings together 36 of the playwright’s dramas
At the heart of this incisive novel is an exquisitely tangled mess of transaction, race, class and obsession
Our critic reviews Foul is Fair, The Sky is Mine, Are You Watching?, What Kind of Girl and Sofa Surfer
London’s Mecklenburgh Square forms the backdrop for an enjoyable collective biography
The second part of Gibson’s third trilogy that began with ‘The Peripheral’ offers a compelling vision of alternate universes
From John Updike’s pioneering depictions to Kristen Roupenian’s ‘Cat Person’, sex on the page has come a long way since Lady Chatterley
An engrossing new account, elegantly written by one of the people who knows the country best
The fate of the English republic is given a rich treatment in this long overdue history
The rise and fall of tobacco in America shows how government and grassroots movements shape consumer tastes
A new translation of the investigator’s final adventure completes a monument to one of the 20th century’s greatest writers
