The Minister and the Murderer by Stuart Kelly – a killer turns to God

Stuart Kelly’s hybrid of real-life crime, memoir and the Scottish church is full of insights but suffers from the weight of its learning

Enemies Within review – Richard Davenport-Hines offers a strange new study of the Cambridge spies

The worst thing the five traitors did was to damage the British establishment, not give away its secrets

When They Call You a Terrorist review: Black Lives Matter memoir convinces

This powerful book by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrice Khan-Cullors reminds us American racism is pervasive – even in liberal California

The Lover review – theatre and dance collide in cool take on Duras’ novel

This adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ semi-autobiographical tale turns the audience into voyeurs

Leïla Slimani on her shocking bestseller, Lullaby: ‘Who can really say they know their nanny?’

Her murderous nanny thriller gripped France, winning its top literary prize and the attention of President Macron. With Lullaby now out in English, the author shares her thoughts on motherhood, #MeToo and being a Muslim in France

Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi review – is this ‘the great Ugandan novel’?

From a Commonwealth short story prizewinner comes a masterful epic that examines Uganda’s history through generations of a cursed family

Salman Rushdie: ‘I couldn’t finish Middlemarch. I know, I know. I’ll try again’

The author on meeting Pynchon, why Kafka is unbeatable – and the trouble with Trollope

Built by Roma Agrawal review – the secret lives of structures

A chatty unravelling of surprising stories behind our built environment by the engineer and campaigner for women in engineering

The Radio by Leontia Flynn review – sheer pleasure, no slog

Flynn’s entertaining new collection of poems really gets under the skin, with topics ranging from new motherhood to Alzheimer’s

Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music by Matthew Collin – review

A scholarly account of how dance music migrated from the margins to the multibillion-dollar mainstream is illuminating

The Alienist review – a 19th-century psychological thriller that’s short on thrills

Despite lush production values and a disturbing plotline, the television adaptation of a 1994 literary sensation fails to excite

Wildlife review – Carey Mulligan plays flirtatious under big skies in Paul Dano’s directorial debut

Mulligan is an unhappy wife and mother looking to break free in this adaptation of Richard Ford’s Montana-set novel

The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers review – smell the coffee

Dave Eggers’s remarkable tale of a Yemeni immigrant chasing the American dream offers hope in the age of Trump

Colette review – Keira Knightley is on top form in exhilarating literary biopic

The life of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette makes for fascinating drama in a nuanced and inspiring film with a luminous central performance

In brief: Reservoir 13; Nefertiti’s Face; Restless Souls – review

Jon McGregor’s interesting take on crime in the community, a breezy history of the Egyptian queen by Joyce Tyldesley and an enjoyable first tragicomic novel from Dan Sheehan