Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier – review
Lanier was there for the creation of the internet and is convinced that social media is toxic, making us sadder, angrier and more isolated
Girl With Dove: A Life Built By Books review – lost in the fog of childhood trauma
Literature helped the young Sally Bayley survive, but there is a yawning gap at the heart of her book
The New World: Comics from Mauretania by Chris Reynolds – review
These unsettling sci‑fi stories by a cult Welsh artist deserve wider attention
Unicorns, Almost review – poignant portrait of a tormented war poet
The Swan Hotel, Hay-on-WyeOwen Sheers’ evocative one-hander paints a fascinating picture of Keith Douglas and places his breathtaking poetry centre-stage
An Inconvenient Death by Miles Goslett – review
A damning study of the Hutton inquiry into David Kelly’s death favours close analysis over conspiracy theories
In brief: A Moment of Grace; Meet Me at the Museum; The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature – review
Patrick Dillon’s moving account of love and loss, letters charting an unlikely friendship, and what we can learn from the great Russians
The Lido; The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes review – the power of unlikely friendships
New novels by Libby Page and Ruth Hogan each use odd couples to deal compassionately with themes of ageing, fear and grief
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo review – a hero at the Golden Gate
One Filipino migrant’s struggle to live her American dream after two years in a prison camp makes for a blazingly fearless debut novel
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory review – laboured rant about the world of work
David Graeber’s snarky study of the meaningless nature of modern employment adds little to our understanding of it
Last Stories by William Trevor review – the master’s final dispatches
This posthumous collection about ‘long-dead marriages’ and ‘fizzled-out affairs’ is full of the Irish writer’s formidable craft
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson review – arrestingly accomplished
Two real-life artistic pioneers challenge gender boundaries and the Nazis in Thomson’s elegant and menacing 10th novel
Book clinic: what are the best novels on modern black British lives?
From Guy Gunaratne to Preti Taneja, author Kit de Waal selects some outstanding writers who reflect the richness of the ‘black experience’
Rachel Kushner: ‘Having children complements the making of art’
The US author on going behind bars to research her new novel, The Mars Room – and the writers she most admires
The Murderer of Warren Street review – magnetic revolutionary or serial killer?
Emmanuel Barthélemy manned the barricades in mid-19th century Paris and was hanged for murder in London. But how best to tell his story?
Children’s and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels
Dogs and jungle animals for young ones, politics and mysteries for older readers