Three books tell the painful story of an ageing American president and how his catastrophic decision to run again paved the way for a Trump comeback
Tiffany Jenkins’ wide-reaching book explores the personal realm and argues for its defence in the face of today’s scrutiny and social media
Crime in the war-ravaged Balkans of the 1990s, a plot against the UN, geopolitics in Greenland and a Danish police procedural
The Austrian-German writer’s new novel The Director explores totalitarianism through a fictionalised account of the Nazi-era filmmaker GW Pabst. It couldn’t be more timely
A real-life family tragedy is the basis for this International Booker-shortlisted fable of duty, attachment and mental illness
Why some people take extraordinary risks to save others
Lydia Millet’s collection explores the malaise among the different generations of two LA families
A luminous tale about borders, bodies and a sense of belonging alternates between 1960s Italy and 2020s Ireland
Panic about the demise of book reading is overblown — across genres, formats and devices, young people are finding and creating their own storytelling communities
This acutely observed memoir of postwar England might be the highlight of the writer’s illustrious four-decade career
Patrick Wallis’s authoritative account of apprenticeships in early modern England has important lessons for our own time
As a cultural figure, Stein has too often been relegated to the margins. This beguiling biography reasserts her legacy
A timely argument that AI, geopolitical tensions and global production networks demand a new statistical infrastructure
Plus Karin Slaughter, Vaseem Khan, Alex North, SJ Parris and Taku Ashibe — it’s a bumper crop
As Bath celebrates Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary, Jemima Kelly dons bonnet and bows to join devotees on a Regency-themed tour
A living critique of censorship, containing everything from ‘Mein Kampf’ to ‘Tintin in the Congo’, which can sometimes leave visitors in tears
René Girard is best known for his theory of ‘mimetic desire’. Now Peter Thiel and the vice-president are among his fans
Our hunger for the Earth’s natural riches drives both political power and immense destruction. Two new books call for a reappraisal of the wealth beneath our feet
Why did a Reuters reporter in Russia decide to write a cookbook?
The novel explores the idea of the self through the character of Kinga, a woman with dissociative identity disorder who has seven ‘alters’, one for each day of the week
The second novel by the celebrated poet returns to themes of loss, poverty and unlikely friendship
A pithy and passionate book looks beyond class, clichés and megaphones to scrutinise how we engage with the UK countryside
From Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater to Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye: Owen Hopkins reflects on the home as catalyst for progress
The Prix Goncourt-winning author’s newly translated novel explores the abandonment and violence wrought by conflict in Europe
Greg Grandin’s superb, punchy account of the deep ties between the US and Latin America forms a powerful case for closer ties in the present
