Robert Service’s very Russian coup
A new book details the sultry last days of the USSR
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Love on the front line
War correspondent Sally Hayden’s new collection of dispatches is horrifying and tender
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M John Harrison’s catastrophic memory
The writer’s five-decade career urges us not to let disaster become familiar
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Claudia Rankine’s new visions
America’s premier political poet has moved beyond didacticism and towards a conciliatory understanding of belonging
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Fiction as anthropology as auto-ethnography
Munir Hachemi’s second novel The Mulai shows us how radical literature can be
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s canon for children
The outgoing children’s laureate’s new book explores how our children live now
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An anti-guidebook to Andy Burnham’s Britain
Chris Moss’s new book is a travelogue from the places that will decide the country’s future
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Mario Vargas Llosa’s demons
He won the Nobel Prize at last. But will his reputation survive his scandalous private life?
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