Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer review – seeking sanctuary

A sweeping and deeply reported analysis of US immigration policy, in all its hypocrisy

The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma review – a brutal journey

The victims of Nigeria’s bloody civil war are given a voice in this tale of a man’s quest to find his estranged brother

In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger review – back from the brink

The war reporter and author of The Perfect Storm brings us a real life medical thriller in which he is the protagonist

My Family and Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray review – tales from a rock’n’roll childhood

From dinner with Queen to watching Ozzy Osbourne run wild, a child-eye’s view of life at a 70s recording studio

Fast by the Horns by Moses McKenzie review – Bristol’s burning

A Rastafari’s tale of belonging and betrayal set in 1980s England

The Secret Public by Jon Savage review – how pop drove LGBTQ+ liberation

A dazzling account of the dreamers and divas who brought a queer sensibility to culture – and changed lives in the process

The Horse by Willy Vlautin review – man and beast in harmony

A musician’s chance encounter with a half-blind nag makes him take stock of his shattered life in the author and songwriter’s latest succinct but compelling novel

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – the past isn’t a foreign place

The historian’s wide-ranging exploration of wistful reminiscence cautiously champions its benefits to society and challenges the view that it is dangerous and foolish

So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle review – an irresistible celebration of female courage

A French cartoonist has doubts about her boyfriend in Mirion Malle’s third book in English, a striking hymn to women and solidarity

The Great Wave by Michiko Kakutani review – overcoming ‘permacrisis’

The Pulitzer prize-winning critic turned author identifies a polarised and unstable world and suggests solutions: embrace risk, welcome otherness and open dialogue

Morning After the Revolution by Nellie Bowles review – the perils of failing to toe the party line

The former New York Times journalist exposes the excesses of hyper-‘woke’ culture and the suffocating impact of groupthink in this enjoyable study of a topsy-turvy world

Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru review – sex, drugs and conceptual art

The novelist’s love triangle has its sights set on the elite insularity of the New York art world but its plot is programmatic

Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control; Wuhan: A Documentary Novel – reviews

Dali L Yang’s critique of China’s response in the early days of the Covid pandemic is thoroughgoing if academic, while poet Liao Yiwu’s account mixes fact and fiction to extraordinary effect

In brief: Hey, Zoey; You Could Make This Place Beautiful; The Light Eaters – review

A thoughtful meditation on love and loneliness via an AI-based sex doll; an outstanding debut memoir of infidelity’s aftermath; and a passionate and insightful botanical study

The Bullet by Tom Lee review – a complicated inheritance

This insightful memoir addresses the author and his parents’ struggles with mental illness, and offers a historical account of treatments