The New Review
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Hame by Annalena McAfee review – laughs between the linesA Hebridean poet’s secret past is unearthed in this intricate satire on Scottish nationalism
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Jackself by Jacob Polley review – sinister and mysteriousPolley’s haunting verse narrative blends nursery rhymes, riddles and cautionary tales with a dash of Coleridge
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Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism – reviewForget Silence of the Lambs: Bill Schutt’s book reveals the evolutionary reasons we may end up eating each other
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Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby; Emergency Admissions by Kit Wharton – reviewPowerful memoirs by a heart surgeon and an ambulance driver tackle the ‘live or let die’ dilemma of modern healthcare
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Games reviews roundup: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard; PJ Masks Super City Run; Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly WorldA 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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The 100 best nonfiction books: No 54 – Brief Lives by John Aubrey (edited by Andrew Clark, 1898)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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Ashland & Vine by John Burnside – reviewAn 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 Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen – reviewThe Pulitzer prize-winner’s dazzling short stories explore both emotional and physical pain
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On my radar: Olafur Eliasson’s cultural highlightsThe artist on his admiration for documentary maker Adam Curtis, Ethiopian jazz poetry and the meditative power of archery
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No place like home: America’s eviction epidemicSoaring 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’