Kushner, Inc review: Jared, Ivanka Trump and the rise of the American kakistocracy
Vicky Ward has produced a damning depiction, a lethal amalgam of Page Six-like dish and firsthand investigative reporting
Nina Stibbe: ‘I really hate anything horror’
The comic writer on real life inspiring her new novel, the problem with comedy prizes and why she dislikes Moby-Dick
Tunnel Vision by Kevin Breathnach review – self-lacerating honesty and lies
Drug-taking and soft porn, literary criticism and intimate reportage in a winning, inventive collection of essays
London Made Us by Robert Elms – a love letter to the capital
The broadcaster and writer isn’t afraid of nostalgia in this part memoir, part cultural history. Is he pining for his youth?
Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff review – post-apocalyptic road trip
Zombies hunt for living flesh in an Ireland destroyed by ‘the Emergency’ … but does this debut bring anything new to the dystopian genre?
The Friends of Harry Perkins by Chris Mullin review – predicting Brexit Britain
The follow-up to the 1982 political thriller A Very British Coup is so topical it will need instant updates
The Idiot review – Dostoevsky’s good prince makes a quivering retreat from love
Saburo Teshigawara’s take on the Russian classic isolates its hero, creating striking scenes that leave you pining for a connection
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Kill [redacted] by Anthony Good; The Guilty Party by Mel McGrath; The Mobster’s Lament by Ray Celestin; Casanova and the Faceless Woman by Olivier Borde-Cabuçon; Cruel Acts by Jane Casey; and A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself by William Boyle
Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton review – slavery’s complex legacy
A searing history of slavery combines with an interrogation of motherhood in this moving American debut
The Alt-Right by George Hawley review – a hateful fixation on race
A white supremacist movement has built up a transnational network of hatemongers. How best to respond?
Pet Sematary review – lairy, hairy new version of Stephen King’s undead animal shocker
Previously filmed in 1989, this creepy tale of a family who discover that buried pets in their backyard won’t stay dead is an impressively nasty scare story
Lotharingia by Simon Winder review – the ‘cockpit’ of Europe
A personal look at the long arc of European history finds a continent perpetually torn between unity and division
The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett review – a geological memoir
A poet comes to terms with her father’s death by wild swimming and taking walks around a Devon village
The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann review – in the footsteps of Bashō
The droll, beguiling story about a lecturer’s journey across Japan has been longlisted for the Man Booker International prize
99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai review – the heart of Afghanistan
In this phenomenal debut, a boy’s epic quest across his war-torn country serves as an act of remembrance for a forgotten people