The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life review – one from the heart

Feminist philosopher Clare Carlisle illuminates George Elliot’s love life as well as the nightmarish marriages in her novels

A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad review – 20 years of frustration and fury in Iraq

The architects of the 2003 invasion promised change and democracy. This book shatters western assumptions, shows the effect on Iraqis of cycles of violence – and offers cautious hope

Birchers review: how the Republican far right gave us Trump and DeSantis

Matthew Dallek’s fast-paced and well-researched history shows how the John Birch Society rose, raved and never went away

Man-Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward review – homage to 60s gay counterculture

Studded with Polari, this bold novel is a dazzling entertainment of sexual and linguistic transgression

The Magician’s Elephant review – sweet kids’ novel with untameable pachyderm

An orphan must perform three impossible tasks in order to find his lost sister in an earnest animation made watchable by a brilliant turn from Aasif Mandvi

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent; The Shadows of London by Andrew Taylor; A Flaw in the Design by Nathan Oates; Mother’s Day by Abigail Burdess; The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson audiobook review – living with an art monster

Juliet Stevenson moves seamlessly between the viewpoints of a vengeful wife and her monstrous, washed-up artist husband

A Wild & True Relation by Kim Sherwood review – smugglers and lovers

A brooding hero, a kidnapped heroine and lusty couplings in a swashbuckling yarn that plays knowingly with the romantic genre

Weathering by Arline Geronimus review – how discrimination makes you sick

A public health expert charts the cumulative effect of prejudice on peoples’ bodies, from heart disease to cancer

Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge review – a journalist strives to understand why her husband cheated

Legge turns a reporter’s eye to a deeply personal matter, in this unflinching interrogation into the marks our family leave behind – and how we might grow past them

Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks review – gangsters, ghosts and raw pleasure

This impressive debut about a young woman’s journey through 1970s London and Bristol to the mystical rituals of Jamaica has been longlisted for the Women’s prize

Saving Time by Jenny Odell review – clocking off

The artist and writer offers a powerful critique of the way we conceive of time in the modern, industrial world, and explores alternatives

Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías review – the final mystery

The last novel from the late Spanish author is a mesmerising addition to his world of spies and lies

Ravenous by Henry Dimbleby review – rage against the food machine

The Leon co-founder and campaigner points the finger at the forces that make modern diets so unhealthy

Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery review – inside Warhol’s Factory

Exploring female friendship, fame and identity, this coming-of-age tale follows two young women in 1960s New York