Review: Body Friend by Katherine Brabon

A meticulous study of pain.

Review: North And South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

All is flux.

Review: Always Will Be by Mikaela Saunders

Radical visions of the future.

Review: The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The big climate book.

Review: How Far The Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

Science meets memoir.

Review: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

The limits and possibilities of empathy.

Review: Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum (translated by Diane Whitty)

Where the river goes savage.

Review: Eventually, Everything Connects by Sarah Firth

Sly, whimsical, existential essays.

Review: God Forgets About The Poor by Peter Polites

“People will love my suffering”.

Review: The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)

Sing, Goddess, sing of the wrath of Achilles.