Collapse by Édouard Louis review – coming to terms with a brother’s death

In the latest autofictional instalment of his family saga, the French writer makes sense of his sibling’s violent homophobia and short life

Morbid by Saul Justin Newman review – why everything you think you know about longevity is wrong

Is Japan really full of centenarians? And what about ‘blue zones’? A brilliant skewering of ageing secrets and lies

Cracking sleaze, Gromit: Wallace’s long-suffering canine companion to tell all in memoir

After ‘bottling everything up for a long time’ the faithful pet, who has remained silent for many years, will spill the beans on the pair’s ‘pet hates and fur-vent passions’

Wombles set to return after 27 years as IP deal opens door to comeback

Litter-picking creatures emerge from underground for global franchise targeting nostalgic adults and gen Alpha

‘Don DeLillo gave me his blessing’: film director Ben Rivers on how fan mail from the Underworld author led to his latest work

When Rivers received a surprise letter from DeLillo, it encouraged him to set the author’s one-act play in an adult-free, postapocalyptic world

Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper to be published next year

Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is the first novel from the Nobel laureate since 2021’s Klara and the Sun and draws on the author’s love of music, art and Golden Age cinema

‘What an adventure Broadway will be!’ Paddington musical packs suitcase for New York

Hugely successful London show to open in the US, with performances beginning in March

The Uses of Utopia by Joad Raymond Wren review – can the ideal society ever exist?

This fascinating intellectual history takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin

Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens review – the last day of maternity leave is a comic rollercoaster

Parenting is represented in all its hilarious, moving and truthfully plodding detail, in the story of a mother and her two little boys

From tents to trebles: Edinburgh book festival to set author’s words to music

Works of Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie and more to feature in celebration of literature’s interplay with other art forms, says director

From Bloomsbury to Whitehall: new play reimagines life of John Maynard Keynes

The Standard of Living by James Graham traces economist’s influence on British politics and culture

Wash by Erica Wagner review – vivid portrait of a monumental American

The life of the Brooklyn Bridge’s chief engineer inspires this multifaceted novel

Photographer Don McCullin to focus on Vietnam for his final book

Exclusive: The work will feature some of the photographer’s most powerful images from his 70-year career

Togetherness by Rowan Hooper review – a stunning portrait of cooperation in nature

This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again

‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist

With an adaptation of Night and Day hitting cinemas, the pioneering author’s work continues to inspire audiences