The Lodger review – ingenious penny dreadful take on Hitchcock’s foggy mystery
Puppetry and silent cinema techniques are used to retell Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel and its film version in a show played for laughs rather than thrills
Venetian Vespers by John Banville review – a haunting honeymoon
This brooding tale of an Englishman’s downfall in fin-de-siècle Venice is memorably eerie – but it’s hard to care about such a pompous protagonist
The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship
Kim A Snyder’s documentary highlights the defenders of young readers’ rights to see their lives in print facing rightwing attacks
What’s With Baum? by Woody Allen review – the film-maker’s late-life first novel
Good gags abound in this tale of a bespectacled Jewish writer caught up in a #MeToo takedown – just don’t expect any surprises
On Antisemitism by Mark Mazower review – parsing prejudice
A historian examines the age-old phenomenon of anti-Jewish hatred and the emergence of a word to define it
Emma review – Austen’s comedy of manners gets an exaggerated Essex makeover
Ava Pickett’s modern-day adaptation of the novel adds pop music, farce and clowning but lacks gimlet-eyed observations
Heirs and Graces by Eleanor Doughty review – what are aristocrats really like?
A journalist brings verve and expertise to a subject that is still weighed down by tedious dynastic detail
Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood review – long Covid from the inside
The cult author’s autofictional follow-up to No One Is Talking About This is the story of a breakdown
107 Days by Kamala Harris review – no closure, no hope
The former presidential candidate sticks to the script in a memoir that will only cause further bad blood
Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite review – a family doomed in love
This intense follow-up to My Sister, the Serial Killer is a haunting story of heartbreak, grief and intergenerational trauma
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback review – anime sleuth wades through a bamboozling bureaucratic maze
A labyrinthine but lively 28th instalment of the hit manga series juggles byzantine intrigue, spies and cop rivalries with stylish flair
If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies review – how AI could kill us all
If machines become superintelligent we’re toast, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Should we believe them?
Listening to the Law review – Amy Coney Barrett offers little comfort about state of US law
Conservative US supreme court justice’s memoir affirms that she is first and foremost a Trump appointee
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Predicament by William Boyd; The Killer Question by Janice Hallett; The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman; 59 Minutes by Holly Seddon; Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes
Night People by Mark Ronson review – a superstar DJ’s coming of age
Nerdery triumphs over gossip in this earnest but compelling memoir of the 90s New York club scene