Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow review – how the great white predators stick together

Ronan Farrow’s masterful account of a conspiracy of abusers reaching from Harvey Weinstein to the top of the US media

Goliath review: Wall Street, Main Street … and Warren as McGovern 2.0?

Matt Stoller’s look at ‘the 100-year war between monopoly and democracy’ is highly relevant to the primary race

Looking for Alaska review – is this Dawson’s Creek throwback too wholesome for Gen Z?

This adaptation of John Green’s young-adult hit is funny and endearing, but its pre-smartphone setting and manic pixie plot feel strangely out of sync with today’s teen hits

Against Memoir and Other Stories by Michelle Tea review – punchy self-revelation

These jagged, intoxicating pieces from the cult American author chronicle two fraught decades for feminism and lesbianism

Rain by Mary and Bryan Talbot review – climate-crisis graphic novel

Passionately political, this tale of a budding relationship between two women set against the 2015 floods in the north of England is an inspiring cry of protest

Envy in Politics review: why keeping up with the Joneses is a political trump card

A fascinating study indicates that the president’s base support is based on more than political animus alone

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre; The Choke by Sofie Laguna; This Little Dark Place by AS Hatch; The Long Call by Ann Cleeves; and Little Siberia by Antti Tuomainen

The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu review – coming of age in modern Britain

Multiple characters and storylines fill a diverting debut that follows a young woman’s search for identity

The Undying and Notes Made While Falling review – how to write about being ill

Beyond the horrific surgery stories ... Anne Boyer and Jenn Ashworth innovate with form in their remarkable books about the experience and business of illness

Indistractable by Nir Eyal review – letting tech off the hook

The author of Hooked, a bible of addictive tech design, now offers advice on how not to be distracted. But is his self-help argument convincing?

The Age of Football by David Goldblatt review – a tour de force

A high-energy survey of the politics and power brokers behind the world’s great populist sport

The Wayward Girls by Amanda Mason – a near-perfect ghost story

A haunted house, home to two strange sisters in the 1970s, is revisited in the present day in this atmospheric gothic yarn

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott review – an impressive debut

The fascinating tale of how the CIA plotted to smuggle Doctor Zhivago back into Russia drives an enjoyable debut

Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré review – thriller laced with Brexit fury

The master of the spy genre takes aim at Brexit and Trump in a classy entertainment about political ideals and deception

We Fight Fascists by Daniel Sonabend review – sabotage and street scuffles

Britain’s fascists targeted Jews in the years after the second world war. This is the story of the 43 Group who fought back