Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney review – the problem of success

How do you follow two brilliantly acclaimed novels? Rooney examines meaning, art, friendship and the price of fame through the story of two couples

Keeping the House by Tice Cin review – a cult classic in the making

Teenage uncertainty and drugs in crates of cabbages … An exhilaratingly idiosyncratic debut set amid north London’s Turkish community

The second in Faulks’s Austrian trilogy is a story of love and doubt set between the wars

This film about Misha Defonseca, author of a ‘memoir’ about escaping the Nazis and sheltering with wolves as a child, is propulsively watchable

A commendable inquiry into why people are the way they are becomes confused by the fact that … it’s complicated

This timely and unconsoling novel is a deeply humanistic fable about a young boy fleeing Syria and the expat girl he meets in Greece

A sage and sane theory of ‘time unmanagement’ exhorts us to stop chasing the seconds and embrace the joy of missing out

A new Penguin collection of the American poet’s work brilliantly showcases the spare beauty of her writing

The co-founder of Justice for Women’s inspiriting book is the perfect primer for understanding the current state of feminism

A woman seeks escapism then finds herself through literature, in an uncompromising novel that packs a dazzling punch

The actor’s harrowing account of the breakdown he suffered in his 20s highlights the psychological impact of racism

A gripping history of John Lewis, a charming tale of a talking cat and a fascinating collection of essays on digital anxiety

The Brazilian author’s digressive, rule-breaking 1881 masterpiece distils the entire human comedy to 160 brief chapters

In this elegant study, the former Conservative minister warns that the US must rethink its relationship with China and embrace a peaceful rivalry

Charles Foster’s search for the meaning of human life leads him and his son to become hedgehog-eating hunter-gatherers in a Derbyshire wood