Remain in Love by Chris Frantz review – once in a lifetime with Talking Heads
The band’s drummer describes his glory years with the post-punk art-rockers, his bass-playing wife, Tina, and the enigma that is David Byrne
Shadow State by Luke Harding review – an impassioned indictment of the Kremlin
Moscow as Mordor ... a detailed and compelling account of the Russian regime’s ‘unofficial war’ against the west
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg; The Divine Boys by Laura Restrepo; The Sandpit by Nicholas Shakespeare; Brixton Hill by Lottie Moggach; One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie
From Bob Dylan to Viv Albertine: 10 of the best music biographies
Addiction, poetry, flirting with Scientology: these candid memoirs and biographies reveal the inner lives of musicians
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue review – fighting the 1918 flu pandemic
Fear and female camaraderie combine in this tale of three Dublin medics’ experiences from the author of Room
The Australian book you should read next: Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
A rare and powerful voice of a woman who has been poor and rich, with a lived understanding of the fickleness of each
Why We Drive by Matthew Crawford review – a high-speed reverse into nostalgia
A macho speed merchant provides some terrific moments but fails in his general defence of cars and motorbikes against new technologies
The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé review – a scurrilous picaresque
The route to radicalisation is explored in a sharply satirical tale by the winner of the Alternative Nobel
The Number Bias by Sanne Blauw review – how numbers can mislead us
From Covid-19 to the tobacco industry to the climate crisis ... a punchy, amusing history of the deliberate misuse of statistics
Two Tribes by Chris Beckett review – 250 years after Brexit
Hungry, flooded and under surveillance, Britain in 2266 feels the impact of civil war and a climate catastrophe
Remain in Love by Chris Frantz review – the Talking Heads drummer speaks out
The trouble with David Byrne ... A revealing inside account of the highs and lows of a band who looked and sounded like nobody else
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Double-dealing in the murky world of espionage, the hunt for an environmental terrorist, creepy neighbours and the return of an old friend
The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams review – a glorious way with words
Williams’s debut novel, a tale of two lexicographers, is a playful delight
War of the Worlds: the pioneering work of science fiction inspired by Australian brutality
The tale of marauding Martians is familiar sci-fi, but it’s less well-known that the book and radio play both have Australian antecedents
Pilgrims by Matthew Kneale review – witty, thoughtful medieval tales
Multiple voices richly evoke the fear of God, and of prejudice, among 13th-century penitents on the road to Rome