Guardian review
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‘I thought that little girl’s only chances were suicide or murder.’ This is a powerful, devastating account of a childhood without boundaries on New York’s Upper East Side
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Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: In Emily Berry, Anne Carson and Sophie Collins, Penguin has showcased three funny, playful and creative writers
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Climate change and mass extinctions suggest that we have been telling the wrong stories. Writers need to reconnect with the natural world
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Edited by Sasha Dugdale and David & Helen Constantine, this anthology illustrates that Ted Hughes’s magazine is still invaluable
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What the critics thought of Housman Country by Peter Parker, The Return by Hisham Matar and The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
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Growing up, Bowie was as influenced by surrealist art and film as he was by Little Richard and John Coltrane, says Paul Morley
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What Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s fox taught me about love, pain and loss
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A childless couple, a troubled inner-city kid and a volatile horse are the ingredients in a complex story of love, guilt and attachment
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This compelling history, from courtship to Tinder and hook-up culture, shows how each transition in dating has produced a scandalised condemnation of increased promiscuity
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The first English translation of Saddam’s warfare tale is to be published in the runup to Christmas, continuing a history of literary offerings from dictators
The Switch by Chris Goodall – solar power is finally taking over