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Weimar Germany’s nightmare, 100 years on; a political memoir by Theresa May; the 2023 Booker shortlist; the US’s global power in data networks; Karl Ove Knausgaard’s existential new tome; the enduring appeal of being a goth; James Ellroy’s Marilyn Monroe novel; new titles on the environment — plus Nilanjana Roy on painting a human picture of a divided India
Fiction goes where news falls short, bringing depth and nuance to the lives of people crudely labelled by politics or religion
Top award in original English-language fiction reflects ‘full range of lived experience’, says jury chair
The second novel in a new series by the Norwegian master is epic and weighty — and repeatedly touched by death
The laureate of American sleaze conjures a lost LA out of the film star’s death and a cast of real-life characters including JFK
‘Jim’s expression is curious, tortoise-like. He looks at you like a family member he hasn’t seen in a long time’
The depiction of tyranny and the traumatic fallout for its opponents in this Booker-longlisted novel is utterly believable
Lauren Groff’s evocative novel challenges legends about the Puritans’ arrival in America — and offers a female-focused alternative
A postwar coming-of-age story told with elegance and wit stands comparison with the best of Muriel Spark
The writer on the pull of Zanzibar, his disquiet at Britain’s treatment of refugees — and the problem with italics
Ismail Kadare digs deep into a fabled telephone conversation that may have sealed the fate of a dissident Russian poet
Filling in the ‘Slow Horses’ back-story, this sort-of prequel is part belly-laugh spy spoof, part elegiac state-of-the-nation satire
The short stories in the writer’s third collection are quiet, subtle and often agonisingly wrenching
Stephen King gives an old love her own book, Christopher Fowler’s farewell, and much more
‘I shall continue to write novels, but I will never write another like The Singularities’, writes the Booker Prize winner
Twelve stories of the life, love and tribulations of consecutive inhabitants of an isolated house in Massachusetts
Literary rivalry, a Victorian trial, slavery in Jamaica . . . the author effortlessly casts her own light on the past
In his fictionalised account of a sadistic real-life crime, Nicola Lagioia digs deep into Italy’s capital and its gay scene
A new show about Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries is a chapter of not-so-distant history that plays like a gothic horror
Satire, if not quite gay abandon, abounds — and Shakespeare’s legacy lives on
Elaine Feeney’s Booker-longlisted novel is suffused with generosity, wisdom and understanding
Younger people seem more open to reading in translation — or in a second language — and it’s changing their world view
The Booker-winner’s new novel is a finely tuned account of an Irish family and the traumas handed down across generations
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s psychological thriller is also a meditation on the immigrant experience and the fragility of identity
With several cliffhanger chapters, Louise Doughty’s latest novel is a consummate psychological thriller about a female spy navigating the corridors of power
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