Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci review – eat, drink, swoon
With a side order of charm and anecdotes, the actor and gourmand makes our reviewer crave a plate of his zeppole
In brief: The Bach Cello Suites; The Book of Mother; Reality and Other Stories
Steven Isserlis gives his take on a musical masterwork, Violaine Huisman dramatises an intense daughterhood and John Lanchester evokes the ghost in our machines
The Impossible Truths of Love by Hannah Beckerman review – secrets and lies
A woman seeks to understand her father’s mysterious last words in a nicely observed novel that keeps the reader guessing till the end
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki review – the story of Oh
Addressing everything from global heating to mental illness, the A Tale for the Time Being author’s latest is big, bold – and narrated by a book
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo review – voyage of discovery
The first black woman to win the Booker recounts her lengthy journey from grotty London flats to making history with Girl, Woman, Other in her eventful hymn to perseverance
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard review – a beguiling shaggy dog story
The appearance of a large star triggers a series of bizarre events in a strange, frequently absorbing exploration of what happens after death
Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh review – an unapologetic defence of music’s defining categories
This often fascinating history of genres and their role in establishing our identities would have been even better with more personal touches
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine review – beyond empathy
A beautiful and enraging novel about a trans doctor’s attempts to help Syrian refugees
Hot Air by Peter Stott review – the battle against climate change denial
A personal account of one climate scientist’s struggle to promote facts in the face of contrarian prejudice
The Long Song review – a vivid, harrowing staging of Andrea Levy’s novel
Tara Tijani and Llewella Gideon are superb in this unblinking portrait of dignity amid moral horror, which follows a Jamaican woman looking back on her life
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup
Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson; The Cabinet by Un-su Kim; Femlandia by Christina Dalcher; When Things Get Dark edited by Ellen Datlow; The Workshop of Filthy Creation by Richard Gadz
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall review – love under lockdown
A sculptor considers the meaning of art, sex and disaster, in this masterfully achieved miniature epic set against a deadly virus
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow review – butchered plotting, bloodless horror
A scrambled script and an over-reliance on dry ice leave this version of Sleepy Hollow tired and empty
Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto – a thrilling, irreverent take on the great American road trip
Like the Great Gatsby – but less romantic and more woke – Wild Abandon follows a lonely outsider finding his place in a late-capitalism world
The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy review – tech-industrial sublime
This densely woven novel of cyclegraphs, MI6 agents, special effects and cybernetics is implacable and intermittently tedious, but then isn’t the world, too?