I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins review – escape routes
A woman leaves her husband and newborn daughter in this autofictional study of loss set in California
Top 10 books about amnesia
Writers from Julian Barnes to Oliver Sacks and Petina Gappah find some profound truths in what gets lost to memory
Free Love by Tessa Hadley review – sexual revolution in 60s suburbia
A woman turns her life upside down and feels the allure of swinging London in this poignant tale of mid-life desire
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara – a masterpiece for our times
The follow-up to A Little Life is a complex tour de force in three interrelated sections that has emerged from the white heat of the moment
In brief: High Performance; Luster; A Time Outside This Time – review
Self-help podcasts triumphantly brought to book, Raven Leilani’s insightful portrait of sex, race and the city and Amitava Kumar does battle with fake news
Patricia Lockwood: ‘I think Brits like my criticism more than Americans do’
The US novelist on writing about her niece’s death, her ‘meaningful’ crystal egg and her fantasy life as a standup comic
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez review – nuanced novel of family, race and politics
Two Puerto Rican-American siblings fall foul of corruption, idealism and the American dream in this impressive debut
Hanya Yanagihara: ‘I have the right to write about whatever I want’
The author of A Little Life on exploring the unfamiliar voice, her third novel To Paradise, and how she got her unflinching eye
Novelist Tessa Hadley: ‘If I met my characters, I might not like them’
For the late-blooming, quietly bestselling author, inhabiting her characters is crucial. And so in her new novel, Free Love, she becomes a middle-aged woman in 1960s London who abandons her family for a much younger man
Always wanted to write? Booker winner George Saunders on how to get started
The Booker winner discusses work, wisdom and the drive to teach, plus seven key tips on how to write well
The Raptures by Jan Carson review – visions in a Northern Irish village
This story of a haunted young girl is an Agatha Christie-esque whodunnit, a dark supernatural mystery and an account of mass trauma
Michel Houellebecq envisages 2027 French election in latest novel Destroy
New book by firebrand author features a Macron-like outgoing leader as well as real-life figures including far-right Éric Zemmour
In the Seeing Hands of Others by Nat Ogle review – he said, she said
Texts, emails, witness statements: a paper trail of sources relating to an act of violence is assembled in a poet’s debut novel
Tides by Sara Freeman review – an experimental study of grief
With its highly fragmented form, this is a poignant evocation of a woman adrift in the wake of tragedy
Jami Attenberg: ‘Rejection gave me a fresh start, a new year’
The American author on how one professor’s criticism gave her the boost she needed to find her own way into a writing career