The End We Start From review – Jodie Comer shines in all too believable disaster drama

Comer plays a young woman whose baby arrives just as environmental crisis begins to break the society around her

Wellness by Nathan Hill review – American storytelling at its era-spanning best

An immersive, multilayered portrait of a marriage, the wunderkind’s follow-up to The Nix is a work of quiet genius

pray to the empty wells by Iryna Shuvalova review – hope’s last stronghold

The Ukrainian poet’s heart-stirring poems cling to dreams in the face of catastrophe in her first collection translated into English

How We Break: Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living by Vincent Deary review – the ways in which we’re undone

The psychologist and researcher’s persuasive inquiry into how life’s struggles take their toll is full of hard-won wisdom

In brief: The Promised Party; Normal Women; Life’s Work – review

A racy memoir of an arty youth; a spiky satire about female employment; and the writer of NYPD Blue on living with Alzheimer’s

The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan review – rich Malaysian second world war saga

Chan skilfully weaves the different perspectives of a family torn apart by colonialism, occupation and betrayal in this hugely satisfying novel

The Sterns Are Listening by Jonathan Wells review – a tight and taut family drama… with a punk soundtrack

In the US poet and memoirist’s debut novel, dark secrets are leavened by rich language and comic invention

‘Life is about creating yourself’: on Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine

The Dylan Center in Tulsa offers a read as endlessly fascinating, as vital to the American story, as its subject himself

Inland by Gerald Murnane review – inside the mind of a master

First published in 1988, this wry book by the Australian eccentric has no plot and few characters, but the quality of the writing makes it rich with novelistic pleasures

Poor Things review – Emma Stone transfixes in Yorgos Lanthimos’s thrilling carnival of oddness

The director of The Favourite teams up again with the fearless Hollywood star in a funny, filthy and explosively inventive spin on Frankenstein

The Rebels review: AOC, Bernie, Warren and the fight against Trump

Joshua Green of Bloomberg News offers a smart, sharp and telling account of the Democratic left and its role in the party

Blood: The Science, Medicine and Mythology of Menstruation by Dr Jen Gunter – why periods are ‘a muddled burden’

The outspoken Canadian gynaecologist’s compelling scientific study cuts through misinformation, myth and worse with clarity and wit in this study of the menstrual cycle

The Wild Men by David Torrance review – inside Labour’s first cabinet

An engrossing account of the perilous course charted by Ramsay MacDonald, Britain’s first Labour prime minister

Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay audiobook review – salutations to the dawn

Every day for 10 years, Lemn Sissay rose to write a poem to the break of day, a witty and profound collection recited here with his customary verve

The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley; The Glass Woman by Alice McIlroy; The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson; The Knowing by Emma Hinds; Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf