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Journalists are rightly worried about fake news and ‘alternative facts’ — but our new world has much in common with the old
This supremely controlled retelling of Greek tragedy has considerable ‘Game of Thrones’ appeal
Martin Wolf is impressed by an analysis of what the world’s largest democracy must do in order to thrive
The Tanzanian author talks to Alec Russell about Zanzibar, colonialism and how the mood in Britain is changing
An insightful biography sheds new and intimate light on the construction of a New York landmark
Arifa Akbar on a call for those who benefit from discrimination to stop denying its existence
The singer-songwriter vividly recaptures a lost moment in British music
The follow-up to ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ is an extraordinary exercise in imaginative empathy
A family road trip to Dignitas is an unlikely source of joy and a in a touching tale about complex male family dynamics
A group of astronauts train for a mission to Mars in this astute novel about the lure of space
We look at the contenders for the biggest prize in women’s fiction, the winner of which will be announced on June 7
A homophobic killing is at the heart of this politically engaged crime thriller
An examination of the truth behind the country’s chocolate-box perfection
The queen of food writing describes a life in meals in vivid prose
A literary page-turner marries the police procedural with the subterfuges of the espionage genre
This Brazilian novel is an improbable cross of ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’ and ‘American Psycho’
Lucy Kellaway on which stage of life is best. And Will Self on our smartphone obsession
Share your top pick — fiction or non-fiction — for our Summer Books feature
Against diaries — and the value of list-making in the age of social media
Meticulous analysis of the social and economic problems of the US white working class
An exposé of abuse at English boarding schools paints a bleak picture of private education
Birds take on a symbolic role in this avant-garde novel set in a seaside town
Art meets commerce behind the scenes at London’s National Theatre
An account of growing up on the fringes of London is also a meditation on the past and future of Britain’s green belt
Humans are kitted out with computer-like features in an innovative sci-fi thriller
A memoir with an unusual perspective on the importance of sound in human life
What does it mean to be a writer? To be alone in many ways
A female narrator writes of her violent marriage in this memoiristic novel set in southern India
A teenager finds redemption in a tale of hardscrabble lives in 1970s North Carolina
Liberalism may be under attack but reports of its death have been exaggerated, argues Alan Beattie
An accessible account of the emissions scandal leaves some unanswered questions
A fast-paced account of Germany’s response to the 2015 refugee crisis
A stylishly written narrative history captures the drama of the Russian Revolution
From Daljit Nagra’s ‘British Museum’
A soulless corporation reveals its secrets in this absurdist tale
Our selection of the best fiction titles reviewed this month
An artful French whodunnit about the search for a missing philosophical document
