A novel set on a US college campus, focusing on a course in stand-up comedy, with powerful scenes

This infuriatingly brilliant novel gets swallowed up in its scaffolding

This piece of autobiographical fiction provides an understanding of China during a crucial period but the author does not fully meet high ambitions

A bright, bold story of the bonds of friendship between women, of a passing on of kindness, and of memory

Haidt invites us to consider the many harms of the Great Rewiring in terms of the ‘opportunity cost’ of near total immersion in a virtual world

Look out also for a breezy page-turner about promoting artists such as Paul McCartney and David Bowie; and a work featuring a world of wonder around Britain most famous recording studio

New novels by Kara A Kennedy; Bea Fitzgerald, Sarah Street, Leanne Egan and Maggie Horne

The eminence of Stiglitz is due to the range of his writing and academic excellence. This was recognised in a Nobel Prize for research on the impact of information on the operation of markets

Creaking under its own weight, at half the size this could have been twice as powerful

Environmental writer uses her late middle age to offer perspectives on future prospects fraught with uncertainty

Reviews of new works by Bob Cryer, Helen Lederer and Julia Alvarez

A raw, genre-hopping romp through the styles of personal memoir, parenting and relationships manual, and feminist manifesto

Though the tone is light, this study of the creation of currency is serious and the academic rigour is clear

A timely piece of work, scrupulous in endorsing only facts and analyses for which the author can find first-hand evidence

Making extensive use of archives, the author gives fresh details of what was going on behind the scenes during pivotal moments in 20th-century history

Conor Gearty explains how terrorism is a noxious concept and the global north’s obsession with it deeply unhealthy

Reviews of The Day Before, Of Shards and Tatters, Three Births and The Palace of Forty Pillars

The judgments of 15 writers on an eventful run of Conservative governments are nearly always brutal

Reviews of new works by Owen O’Neill, Kathy Lette and Mahmoud Darwish

The legacy of Dockrill’s young adult writing career is evident in chirpy proses that brims with exclamation marks, superlatives and capitalisations