Books Chris Power’s A Lonely Man is a gripping novel that balances political intrigue with personal danger The book is also a melancholy portrayal of male solitude and community. By Hannah Rosefield
Books Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver: an exploration of the rift between baby boomers and millennials By Hannah Rosefield
AM Homes’s new collection of short stories, Days of Awe, is original and destabilising With the full complement of Homesian injuries, accidents and illnesses, these stories are at once melancholy and absurd. By Hannah Rosefield
You Think It, I’ll Say It: Curtis Sittenfeld’s new story collection shows how the personal is political If social politics dominates these stories, national politics nibbles at the edges of them. By Hannah Rosefield
The Idiot is animated by the pleasures and frustrations of different forms of knowledge Elif Batuman's novel follows an 18-year-old aspiring writer through her first year at Harvard. By Hannah Rosefield
Did a lack of empathy cause both Brexit and Trump? Since Barack Obama declared that America has an "empathy deficit", empathy has become a political buzzword. But is it… By Hannah Rosefield
Counting the ways: what Virgin and Other Stories teaches us about want April Ayers Lawson’s debut collection is both forensic and mysterious. By Hannah Rosefield
Rush and you’ll trip: reading The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride's second novel deserves all the success of her first. By Hannah Rosefield
Lionel Shriver’s new novel creates a whole world – but can’t quite grasp its inhabitants Like Shriver's previous offerings, The Mandibles: a Family – 2029-2047 takes on a difficult topic: this time, American debt. By Hannah Rosefield
What we learned from the first academic Archers conference I sat with two of the organisers, debating whether all members of the extended Archer family were insufferably smug.… By Hannah Rosefield