The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor review – a class act

A college campus in the midwest provides the setting for this expansive novel of sex, politics and self-discovery

One Midsummer’s Day by Mark Cocker review – soaring with swifts

Wonder and gratitude drive a revelatory account of this vital summer visitor

I Look Forward to Hearing from You by Nick Bhasin review – madcap Hollywood satire

While it has moments of brilliance and a Clickhole-esque wit, this debut novel is more often swallowed by its own snark

Psychedelics by David Nutt review – hope or hype?

An expert makes the case for psychedelic therapy, but we should beware the ‘Pollan effect’

Ghost Girl, Banana by Wiz Wharton review – a Hong Kong family saga

A multilayered debut shifts between the lives of a mother and daughter, exploring heritage, inheritance and sibling rivalry

Whether Violent or Natural by Natasha Calder review – visions of a toxic Eden

A couple rely on each other for survival on a post-apocalyptic island, in this darkly unsettling tale

My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar review – a survivor’s story

An extraordinary, posthumously published book recalls the horrors of Nazi occupation and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

An Indian village seeks mob justice after a girl’s death, the great Inspector Banks bows out, and clerical investigations resume for Richard Coles

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor review – a real university challenge

Inert characters mar the Real Life author’s new novel – a study of education, economics and desire set on a campus in America’s midwest

Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy review – a mother’s confession after the fight of her life

An unnamed narrator shares the dislocating demands of early motherhood with her son in Kilroy’s astonishing new novel

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore review – bringing out the dead

A teacher hits the road with his lover’s corpse in the American’s droll, philosophical fourth novel, a triumph of tone and imagination

In brief: Winkle; The Winding Stair; Act of Oblivion – review

A fascinating study of a wartime ace pilot, Jesse Norman’s debut historical novel and Robert Harris’s gripping tale of regicides on the run

Rattlebone by Maxine Clair review – overlooked coming-of-age classic

Empathic and rich in human detail, this 1994 novel of Black life in 1950s Kansas deserves to reach a wider audience

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck review – subtle insights into politics and passion

A love affair in 1980s Berlin mirrors the demise of the socialist dream in the German author’s absorbing fourth novel

‘What comes across clearly is the emotional cost of migration’: Windrush commemorated in books

Seventy-five years after the Empire Windrush brought one of the first groups of Caribbean migrants to Britain, a number of titles examine the experiences of that generation