Bill Clinton: ‘I always wanted to be a writer, but doubted my ability to do it’

The author and 42nd president of the United States on finding comfort in thrillers – and inspiration in William Styron, James Baldwin and Maya Angelou

Final John le Carré novel, Silverview, to be published in October

Finished before his death in December, le Carré gave his blessing to publish the novel, which follows a bookseller who becomes embroiled in a spy leak

The best recent thrillers – review roundup

US politician Stacey Abrams triumphs with a conspiracy in Washington, plus a Du Maurier-esque chiller and the dark world of a life coach

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon review – an electrifying gothic techno-thriller

A force-of-nature teenage mother escapes from a cult into the wilderness in Solomon’s audacious third novel

In brief: The Wolf Den; In Love With Hell; Brixton Hill – reviews

A historical novel set in the Roman sex industry, a dark study of alcoholic writers and a thriller with a social conscience

The Woman in the Window review – broken thriller is barely worth a look

Amy Adams gives a flat performance as an agoraphobe unravelling a dull mystery in Joe Wright’s cursed misstep now being dumped on Netflix

Johnny Mnemonic review – Keanu test-drives early Matrix prototype

Keanu Reeves is in impeccably robotic form as a data courier on the run in this 1995 adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk story set in 2021

‘Jaws at 35,000 feet’: the flight attendant whose debut thriller sold for seven figures

TJ Newman dreamt up her terror-in-the-skies novel Falling while guarding the cockpit as the pilots took a toilet break. She reveals how she kept going through furlough and 41 rejections

Why Len Deighton’s spy stories are set to thrill a new generation

The author’s son explains why the working-class heroes of his father’s soon-to-be-reissued novels will resonate today

Hear me out: why Johnny Mnemonic isn’t a bad movie

The latest in our series of writers defending films hated by many is an ode to the 1995 William Gibson adaptation starring Keanu Reeves as a tech antihero

Things Heard and Seen review – moody Netflix ghost story fails to haunt

Amanda Seyfried is a woman coming undone, thanks to a supernatural entity and a toxic husband, in a strangely inert combination of horror and drama

Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse review – macho adventure plays by the book

Michael B Jordan stars as a Navy Seal out for revenge in this formulaic update of Clancy’s 1993 bestseller

Honkaku: a century of the Japanese whodunnits keeping readers guessing

These fiendishly clever mystery novels have spawned pop culture icons, anime and a museum. And, best of all, honkaku plays fair – you have the clues to solve the crime