The New Review
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A Hebridean poet’s secret past is unearthed in this intricate satire on Scottish nationalism
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Polley’s haunting verse narrative blends nursery rhymes, riddles and cautionary tales with a dash of Coleridge
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Forget Silence of the Lambs: Bill Schutt’s book reveals the evolutionary reasons we may end up eating each other
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Powerful memoirs by a heart surgeon and an ambulance driver tackle the ‘live or let die’ dilemma of modern healthcare
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A terrifying return to form for the survival horror series, a well-crafted crossover title for young and old and a tightly knit textile platformer
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Truly ahead of his time, the 17th-century historian and gossip John Aubrey is rightly credited as the man who invented biography
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An old woman tells her life story to a student struggling with alcoholism in a novel recalling the tales of Scheherazade
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The Pulitzer prize-winner’s dazzling short stories explore both emotional and physical pain
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The artist on his admiration for documentary maker Adam Curtis, Ethiopian jazz poetry and the meditative power of archery
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Soaring rents and low wages have hit the poorest families in the US hard. Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond introduces an extract from his heartbreaking new book about the crisis
Katkin Tremayne: ‘Dad would climb over people to get his picture’