An urgent call to guard against tyranny; Kremlin propaganda and the complicity of Russia’s Orthodox Church; far-right white nationalism in America’s hinterlands; the Rillington Place murders and women’s lives in postwar Britain; David Spiegelhalter on the role of luck and chance; inside the artists’ studios (and their minds); new novels by Alan Hollinghurst, Rumaan Alam and Clare Chambers — plus Gideon Rachman’s pick of politics titles
Spanning the arc of the author’s own life, this personal progress is by turns drolly self-mocking, mischievously randy and touchingly vulnerable
A young woman’s noble ambitions are compromised by the corrupting influence of money
The author follows her acclaimed 2020 novel ‘Small Pleasures’ with a portrait of extraordinary lives in 1960s suburbia
Yael van der Wouden’s novel is powerful tale of buried guilt, repressed desire and the lasting dispossessions of the Holocaust
Neha Dixit’s vivid chronicle of an urban migrant’s struggle to survive plays out against the backdrop of modern India
Flawed characters and toxic chemicals are woven together in Louise Erdrich’s story of three families in a Dakota farming community
The Nobel laureate cements her reputation as one of the great storytellers of our age
Alan Moore starts a five-part series set in the capital, plus a mixed-bag 1970s anthology and a lavish Michael McDowell reissue
The Irish writer’s keenly intelligent new novel swaps her formidable female leads for two brothers summoned together by grief
An uneven collection of writing by the Spanish filmmaker veers from deep personal reflection to cartoonish absurdity
A travel writer is drawn into a world of espionage from Congo to the eastern bloc in this portrait of a vanished era
Some big names missing from a final six that includes the largest number of female authors in the fiction prize’s history
Exciting first novels cover themes from America’s racial divide to writing as therapy — and riding to the rescue in the Iraqi desert
On the 50th anniversary of her bestselling novel La Storia, we remember a writer inextricably linked to Italian political history
The author’s latest book, inspired by the intimate diaries kept by his mother, Elaine, is arguably his most mature novel yet
The American writer continues the story of his auto-fictional alter-ego amid a devastating mid-life illness
The latest novels from Attica Locke, Linwood Barclay, Simon Mason and more
The Norwegian author’s dark novel underscores how love and suffering are often bedmates
Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton finally meet in the author’s perfectly rendered world of Crosby, Maine
From Lewis Carroll to Roald Dahl and Harry Potter, Sam Leith’s engrossing book is more than a history — it’s a celebration
In Yoko Ogawa’s beautifully composed novel, a young girl tries to make sense of the world around her
Capers in Constantinople and Cornwall — plus a chilling story of espionage set in 1930s Vienna — are among the most compelling new spy novels
Virginie Despentes uses the 18th-century epistolary form to craft a modern exploration of ageing, gender and addiction
The author’s latest novel draws on Herbert Henry Asquith’s letters to aristocrat Venetia Stanley in the run-up to the first world war
