High Fidelity review – Nick Hornby’s vinyl nerd back in the groove
A delightfully tuneful adaptation of the Broadway musical returns the unlucky-in-love record-shop owner to his London roots
Humiliation by Paulina Flores review – millennial lives, killer twists
Sharp insights and dry humour mark the debut of this accomplished young Chilean writer
Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo by Philippe Lançon – review
One victim’s powerful response to the 2015 massacre favours philosophy and wit over anger and polemic
In brief: Mister Good Times; Two Souls; Airhead – review
The story of a legendary DJ, the human cost of the Troubles, and behind the scenes with Emily Maitlis
Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall review – powerful and unsettling
Women contemplate death and punish abusive men in seven highly imaginative stories
Will by Will Self review – portrait of the author’s younger Self
A self-lacerating drugs memoir of ‘darkly angelic prose’ recalls Self’s heroin addiction in the 1980s
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout review – a moving tour de force
The small-town anti-heroine returns, exploring themes of grief, loneliness, regret and hope
Don’t Be Evil review – how the tech giants have become too big to fail
Rana Foroohar’s masterly critique of the internet pioneers who now dominate our world
Triggered review: Donald Jr, the Trump kid with real political chops
The son’s book is one-eyed, loose with the facts and a crude attack on the left. In short, it’s like his dad – and it might work
Book clinic: which fantasy novelists can I turn to now that Terry Pratchett is gone?
Author Eoin Colfer, who wrote the final book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, advises a bereft reader
The Summer Isles by Philip Marsden review – a voyage of the imagination
A solitary and deeply personal journey to the north of Scotland is rich in myth and mystery
My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman review – the film-maker’s family struggle
The Belgian director recalls her fraught relationship with her mother, a survivor of the Holocaust
Of Strangers and Bees by Hamid Ismailov review – Avicenna in the modern world
Three winning tales of exile featuring a wandering philosopher, a penniless writer and a bee forced from its hive
London Review of Books: An Incomplete History review – 40 years of the LRB
Rants, spats and intellectual seriousness from London’s literary elite
The Great Flood by Edward Platt review – a wade through waterlogged Britain
From sunken cities to coastal catastrophe … the everyday misery of the climate crisis