Streaming: where to find Joan Didion gems
The US writer’s acerbic crispness is ill-served by a new adaptation of her 90s thriller The Last Thing He Wanted – but other Didion works are just waiting to be streamed…
Warhol by Blake Gopnik review – sex, religion and overtaking Picasso
A splendid life of Andy Warhol claims him as the most influential artist of the 20th century, and isn’t shy of exposing his private life
Suffrage review: epic retelling of US women’s long battle for the vote
A century after the 19th amendment, Ellen Carol DuBois makes the familiar new and sheds light on a fight against injustice
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica review – a prizewinning Argentinian dystopia
All bets are off: human meat isn’t murder, it’s on the menu in this blood-spattered narrative
My Wild and Sleepless Nights by Clover Stroud review – what does being a mother feel like?
From childbirth agony to hormonal ecstasy … the raw, unsanitised record of a year in the life of a mother of five
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave review – a witch-hunt tale for our times
Inspired by the Vardø storm of 1617, the story of how widows became the victims of a witch-hunt on a Norwegian island
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga review – a migrant’s tale
A Sri Lankan migrant in Sydney agonises over whether to tell the police about a murder and risk deportation
Waiting for Anya review – soapy second world war melodrama
Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp stars in a gorgeous-looking but unemotional adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising review – workies save the world
Apprentice superheroes fight the forces of evil in an anime adventure overloaded with Japanese bizarro zeal
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann review – an extraordinary Holocaust story
The remarkable history of how a Jewish survivor hid in plain sight at the heart of the Third Reich is uncovered by his daughter
Antisocial by Andrew Marantz review – America’s online extremists
A compelling account of how far-right firestarters helped ‘the world’s most gifted media troll’ to become the US president
Independence Square by AD Miller review – thriller in post-Soviet Ukraine
From Kiev to London by way of Greeneland … the Booker-shortlisted author’s protagonist searches for answers
The Crying Book by Heather Christle review – why do we weep?
A personal examination of tears – what causes them, why we cry – which takes in biological science, relationship break-up, poetry and Donald Trump
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 review – South Korean #MeToo bestseller
This novel by Cho Nam-joo chronicles the life of a woman desperate to escape stifling gender roles
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty review – if inequality is illegitimate, why not reduce it?
The celebrated French economist is back with an ambitious and optimistic work of social science, which argues that inequality always relies on ideology