The Yellow Wallpaper review – Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story given hi-tech staging

Aurélia Thierrée narrates the tale of a confined ‘hysterical’ woman while Fukiko Takase dances on a screen behind her

My Weil by Lars Iyer review – a sharp satire on the state of higher education

Corporate academia, a crumbling society and student pretensions are all skewered in this darkly comic novel

The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

The Living and the Rest by José Eduardo Agualusa; Near Distance by Hanna Stoltenberg; Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye; The Siren’s Lament: Essential Stories by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

A Theory of Everyone by Michael Muthukrishna review – the laws of life

Is it possible – or even desirable – to study people with the scientific detachment of a physicist studying matter?

The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson review – a bravura feat

Six years on from her translation of the Odyssey, Wilson revels in the clarity and emotional clout of Homer’s battlefield epic

Enter the Water by Jack Wiltshire review – the company of birds

A homeless man journeys from Cambridge to the coast in the Leicester writer’s fresh, funny and serious verse narrative

The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021 by Clinton Heylin review – a fierce kind of love

The Dylan scholar won’t accept any criticism of his idol unless he himself is wielding the sword in his latest exhaustive attempt to understand the ultimate unreliable narrator

The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff review – a succession of absurdities

A forensic holding to account of Rupert Murdoch and the power of Fox News is desperately needed, but this isn’t it

Mutzenbacher review – erotic novel reading makes men the object of the porn gaze

Ruth Beckermann’s documentary centres around a fake audition in which men read aloud from a once scandalous 1906 novel, revealing the grotesque and humorous nature of male fantasy

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a ‘what if’ classic

The writer’s alternative history – a thriller set in a 1920s US with a huge and thriving Native American population – underlines the range and power of his imagination

Everything Is Everything by Clive Myrie review – the man behind the headlines

The reporter and presenter’s story explores black diasporic life alongside his broadcasting career

In brief: Giacometti in Paris; The Stargazers; The Village Idiot – reviews

Michael Peppiatt’s connection to the sculptor informs a fascinating life; Harriet Evans conjures a gripping tale of family and property; and Steve Stern weaves fact and fiction in a story of artistic youth

Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale review – deft tale of female scammers

First published in 1988, the late crime writer’s final novel highlights her sly humour and vivid characterisation

Jobs for the Girls by Ysenda Maxtone Graham review – how the other half worked

Accounts of women’s working lives from the 1950s onwards highlight the upper classes and the eccentric. It’s wonderfully mad, but also irritating

Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li review – dialogues with death

Sudden losses are everywhere in the Chinese American writer’s controlled, contemplative stories