The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip review – a survey of photographers’ journeys

David Campany’s study of the great photographic odysseys across America points to a country more indistinct than ever, says Sean O’Hagan

Just the ticket: the joy of England’s railway stations

The story of the English railway station since its Victorian heyday is that of a distinctively creative free-for-all, writes Rowan Moore

This is a wonderful story of family, friendship and Zimbabwean politics as seen through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy, writes Bernardine Evaristo

From Rana Plaza back to the Lancashire mills, the story of an industry happy to exploit. By Sukhdev Sandhu

Yvonne Roberts on Joanna Bourke’s convincing polemic against the militarised mindset that is shaping the modern world,

Alexander McCall Smith fails to redraw Austen’s matchmaking heroine for the modern world, writes Viv Groskop

The friction between a man’s wife and his mother is brought vividly to life in this divorce drama, says Kate Kellaway

Anjelica Huston proves herself an astute observer in her star-packed second memoir, writes Elizabeth Day

The stillbirth of Karen McCarthy Woolf’s son is the powerful emotional core of this deft, unsentimental collection, writes Kate Kellaway

This is an enjoyably picaresque portrait of a blue-blooded life, says Nicholas Clee, though there’s little on the earl’s career as an artist

Tim Lewis weighs up the evidence from three accounts of a gripping trial by June Steenkamp, Mandy Weiner and Barry Bateman, and John Carlin

Stephen Kotkin’s first volume in a three-part study of Stalin is both exhaustive and exhausting, writes Oliver Bullough

David Hare’s adaptation of Katherine Boo’s acclaimed book breaks new ground for the National, writes Susannah Clapp

A bright new adaptation of Lewis Carroll is at its strongest when it stays true to the original, writes Clare Brennan

The Just Henry and Goodnight Mister Tom author’s latest offering turns back time to 1960s London. By Linda Buckley-Archer