In brief: Beyond the Red Wall; The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914; Inside the Beautiful Inside – reviews

Deborah Mattinson’s report on Labour’s losses is timely

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke review – byzantine and beguiling

The gloriously strange follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is more than worth the lengthy wait

Hermione Lee’s masterly biography of the playwright argues that emotion is as vital to his writing as ‘mental acrobatics’

The former national security adviser’s critical study of US foreign policy goals can seem remote from political reality

In the Pointless creator’s bestselling debut, amateur sleuths in an upmarket retirement village investigate a murder a bit too close to home

This overarching history of the Brigades who fought in the Spanish civil war is a remarkable collection of testimonies and captivatingly readable

The venerable magazine’s timely collection of essays arrives amid new crises. It is the right book for this time of chaos

The letter D disappears in a childlike fable from the author of The Book of Strange New Things

This new film version of the off-Broadway hit about gay lives in New York is strange, compelling and unexpectedly potent

Kunzru’s smart and thought-provoking sixth novel draws a line from German Romanticism to Trump and the alt-right

Murder, conspiracy and gothic mayhem abound in the follow-up to The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, set during a 17th-century ocean voyage

Dalton again tackles good and evil from the perspective of a heartbreaking, hopeful child – but the other characters get a little lost in the magic

The ‘Philosopher of #MeToo’ examines the dynamics of male/female relationships in a fresh, illuminating way

The crime writer sifts through theories on happiness from life coaches and philosophers, and has an epiphany

Britain’s first female DJ, who never became one of ‘them’, recalls a career that has spanned the Beatles to Billie Eilish