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In a theatre setting, the masterly Irish writer considers the melting, capricious line between the truth and the fake
‘Strange Hotel’ by Eimear McBride
A woman unceasingly travels to contend with the inertia of grief, in the latest novel from the author of ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’
Twilight knowing: Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’
The American novelist brings literary fiction’s focus on the interior life to climate-change cataclysm
What dreams may come: ‘Hamnet’
Shakespeare’s son succumbs to plague as Maggie O’Farrell conjures Elizabethan England
Make ’em laugh: ‘Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming’
On surrendering to the altogether amusing madness of László Krasznahorkai’s prose
How Denmark is bidding farewell to fossil fuels – an extract
The Miles Franklin–winning author’s latest novel expands on her interest in the submission and consequential fury of women amid the impersonal natural world
‘A Couple of Things Before the End’ by Sean O’Beirne
The Australian author’s debut story collection confidently converts the linguistic detritus of our era into something of lasting value
Days of future passed: William Gibson’s ‘Agency’
The cyberpunk pioneer’s latest novel continues his examination of the present from the perspective of a post-apocalyptic future
Searching for the truth in Yuendumu
Very little has been learnt from the death in custody on Palm Island