Guardian review
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The author on writing for cash, painful posture and having writer’s block just the once
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Amit Chaudhuri revisits a masterful tale of revellers stranded at a hotel, which recalls Joyce and Woolf but resembles neither
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Bonhomie fades as five thirtysomething men find themselves ill-equipped to survive amid the detritus of a ruined country
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The New Yorker writer had a life that balanced domesticity with intellectual and sexual adventure. Then it fell apart
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Science fiction roundup The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror novels – reviews roundup
Chalk by Paul Cornell, The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams, Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds, Relics by Tim Lebbon and Hekla’s Children by James Brogden -
This international history makes the case for squatting as a radical alternative to neoliberal urbanisation and a shared vision of the city
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It was Britain’s first popular paper – and once supported Hitler – but this history is best on the Mail’s divisive current editor
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Greed has always been with us, but now there is hardly a sector of public life where it is not a rampant influence. What can be done?
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A vivid, immersive multigenerational saga about life for Koreans in Japan is a tale of resilience and poignant emotional conflict
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The Prince was meant ironically, and its author was really a nice guy, argues this compulsively readable study
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A scuba-diving philosopher of science explores the wonder of cephalopods, smart and playful creatures who live outside the brain-body divide
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Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: an absurdist tale of a useless, cheese-hating clerk who tries to become ... a cheese merchant
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Olga Tokarczuk, AM Bakalar, Wioletta Greg are among the lineup of visiting writers in a year of talks focusing on change in Europe
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From Ulysses to Last Orders, many novels have embraced a whole life, while dwelling on the passing of mere hours. Graham Swift on the importance of immediacy
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The books interview: this year’s TS Eliot prize winner on the freedom of his Cumbrian childhood and making a living from poetry
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The author discusses 30-bob bedsits, writing between hospital visits and how old age gatecrashed his productivity
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A rising poet draws on Freud in a piercing, highly intelligent interrogation of her response to her mother’s death
A life in ... Gillian Beer: ‘I’m a historical remnant from the great days of free education’