Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.
Public transport is enemy territory,but sometimes the unexpected happens.
F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is said to contain some of the most perfect sentences ever written about America.
The American author’s Diary of A Wimpy Kid series is the fourth bestselling book series of all time - and not just in kids’ books.
In the third instalment of her fictional triptych,Katie Kitmaura wields her words with scalpel-like precision to explore the demands women are “expert at negotiating”.
E.A. Hanks’s memoir re-creates a road trip she once took with her late mother to seek answers to what was an “incomprehensible” childhood.
A central focus for US progressives should be raising wellbeing by creating more for everyone,argue Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in their new book.
The theremin’s “woo-ooo” sound has haunted music and cinema lovers for years. Carolina Eyck is the world’s best player,but she’s still making sense of it.
Andrea James was haunted by “The White Woman of Gippsland”. Her contemporary stage thriller shifts the perspective.
Emmy Award-winning husband-and-wife creative team Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s new series is a little like Emily in Paris ... but with more dancing.