John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills review – a handful of dust (and prawn cocktail crisps) in riff on TS Eliot
The comedian addresses a relationship breakup via The Waste Land, Aldi and a dimwit estate agent
Offseason by Avigayl Sharp review – wry comedy of a frazzled teacher
Sharp’s deadpan debut reads like a gen Z update on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, playfully skewering modern literary tropes
If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn review – how on earth do you translate Shakespeare?
Is Hamlet still Hamlet when every word has changed? A superbly diverting book about language and creativity
Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa review – lost voices from an Irish asylum
Forgotten psychiatric patients are resurrected with imagination and compassion in this extraordinary book
Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard review – the stories behind the Windrush scandal
In this warm and tender debut, the family of Barbados-born Lucinda must try to document her decades in Britain after the Home Office threatens her with deportation
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean review – a dashing retrospective for a cinematic titan
Cannes film festival: Barnaby Thompson’s documentary on the great British director is an exhilarating delve into the ebb and flow of Lean’s peerless career and sometimes complex personal life – with a grand cast of talking heads
Clarissa review – Sophie Okonedo mesmeric as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway decamps to Nigeria
Cannes film festival: Commanding performances and a great musical score underpin this seductive drama about regret, memory and young love
Propeller One-Way Night Coach review – John Travolta family plane fantasy is a short-haul joyride
Travolta directs and narrates this 60-minute adaptation of his own short story about a boy who dreams of being a pilot
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All of a Sudden review – care home drama is tender, meditative and a little too precious for its own good
Cannes film festival: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ocean-hopping treatise on love and mortality is undeniably beautiful – but it works best in its quieter, compassionate moments rather than the flurries of self-conscious solemnity
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Honey by Imani Thompson; Quite Ugly One Evening by Chris Brookmyre; The Final Chapter by CB Everett; The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani; Shrink Solves Murder by Philippa Perry
Backtalker by Kimberlé Crenshaw review – the audacity of hope
The inspiring life of the Black American activist and legal scholar who changed the way the world thinks about race
Cast Away by Francesca de Tores review – gripping portrait of the real-life Robinson Crusoe
This fascinating novel about 18th-century privateer Alexander Selkirk, abandoned on a tiny island in the South Pacific, becomes a revelatory meditation on humanity
Songwriters on the Run by Robert Forster review – Go-Betweens frontman hits a dud note
There’s little melody or rhythm in Forster’s prose, while the dialogue is plodding and full of exposition