The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie – a haunting coda to a groundbreaking career

From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peak

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc review – gore-soaked demonic anime squats in the manosphere

Tatsuki Fujimoto’s coming-of-age saga continues with a surreal encounter with a chainsaw-wielding demon living in a teenager’s soul

The I Love Dick author combines autofiction with memoir and true crime

A new collection brings essays, fiction and fragments together in a wild if uneven portrait of a restless mind

New book, published just before the ceasefire deal, describes in granular detail the conditions for dismantling apartheid in Israel-Palestine

The healing power of gardens; celebrating an abolitionist; hope in the toughest times; a gladiator romantasy and more

The actor on being called ugly, telling Johnny Rotten to F-off, and striking gold at Cannes

In a world where books have to vie with smartphones for attention, a brilliant ebook reader is more necessary than ever

A law professor leaves his failing marriage and faltering career and hits the open road in this Booker-shortlisted novel of midlife turmoil

Life extensionists like Bryan Johnson want to live forever. But at what cost?

The Book of Dust trilogy is brought to a complex and fitting end as Lyra battles the Magisterium over her lost imagination

Stephen King, Takashi Miike and Karyn Kusama are among the contributors to this documentary about Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror masterpiece

Horror tropes meet modern nightmares as the South Korean author takes us deep inside a research facility called The Institute

A colourful study of the evolution of extremism in the tumultuous 1970s

The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translation