The novelist and poet interrogates his great-grandfather’s life story, taking in Nazi Germany, 1930s Turkey and the world of chemical weapons
Two sixtysomethings strike up an unlikely liaison in this contemporary fairy tale by the ‘Call Me by Your Name’ author
Body modification in Korea, short stories about automatons through history, and how humans might cope in a dystopian Lilliput
A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’
Cordelia Fine, Charlie Colenutt and Emily Callaci dive into the often unfair and random ways we value labour
The former Vanity Fair editor takes a nostalgic look back at an era when print was king and the publishing industry thrived
Fact and fiction merge in Burhan Sönmez’s novel about a man out to avenge the wrong done to Kafka
Philippe Sands tells the story of his part in attempts to extradite the Chilean dictator and trace his ties to an SS fugitive
In the first two of seven volumes, the International Booker-longlisted Danish author follows her protagonist, again and again, through the same day
An ocean-going 1940s sleuth aspires to write a memoir (and film script) based on the unsolved 1931 killing of Julia Wallace
A former diplomat’s unflinching account of migrant journeys to Britain advocates for more humane and practical reforms
The Princeton historian on the battle over who says what — and why it depends on power, wealth and the media megaphone
Madeleine Watts’ shrewdly funny novel anchors the climate crisis in personal grief and prescient parallels with California’s wildfires
Using an eye-wateringly high combination of narcotics and electric shocks, Dr William Sargant victimised his young patients for more than 30 years
Padraic X Scanlan’s history of the ‘Great Hunger’ and its repercussions is meticulous, measured and damning
A prime minister who won’t stand down, inside the Johnson and Truss chaos, a leftwing rallying cry and a paean to civil servants
Recording daily encounters with nature increases our connection to it. But could a writer more interested in owl pellets than AI be up to the task of creating an app to up the ante?
How Peter Grainger created DC Smith, the greatest fictional sleuth you’ve probably never heard of
Guillaume de Laubier’s colourful photographs capture the city as you’ve never seen it
Two timely books on how the region responded to the ‘Russia menace’ and Estonia’s transformation into a thriving tech hub
The punk-poet legend and her daughter Jesse Paris Smith are bound by their shared love of rare books
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s harrowing memoir on escaping the atrocity is also a broader meditation on memory
Xiaolu Guo’s reworking of Melville’s epic is an artful and energetic exploration of contemporary issues such as race and gender
As his strange, brilliant work goes on show in Barcelona, the graphic novelist explains why human life is never boring
Stephen May vividly imagines the story behind a real-life 1920s disappearance
