Review: Sex And Vanity by Kevin Kwan

A fizzy adaptation of E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View.

Review: An Exciting And Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rossa

Stories that illuminate the condition of the modern world.

Review: Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

A sympathetic and warts-and-all depiction of love, loss and family.

Review: The Dawn Of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

A big history of people that demolishes the myth of progress.

Review: The Story Of A New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)

This second instalment of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet deepens and complicates the themes of the first.

Review: Companion Piece by Ali Smith

A fittingly grim and anxious search for meaning in our anxious and grim times.

Review: Take Care by Eunice Andrada

Poetry that investigates ‘taking’ in all its forms.

Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson

A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.

Review: Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam

A gleefully silly horror-comedy of the end of the world.

Review: Bodies Of Light by Jennifer Down

A novel of surviving extraordinary trials.