Novelist Joe Dunthorne makes an assured leap to poetry in this witty and clever collectionJoe Dunthorne is a novelist who understands that joking can be the most powerful way of being serious. In his most recent novel, The Adulterants, his abject protagonist survives (only just) through last-ditch gags. How would...

The award-winning journalist debunks prevailing prejudices in this insightful and persuasive bookBrexit, Trump, colonialism, Tommy Robinson, “incels”, identity politics: award-winning Guardian journalist Nesrine Malik’s new book stares into the heart of our current seething political volcano and gives it a cool hosing down.Her overall point is that we have not...