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‘The Other Americans’ by Laila Lalami
An accidental death in a tale of immigrant generations highlights fractures in the promise of America
The chthonic realms explored in Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Underland’
Cave systems, mines, urban sewers, mycelial networks, moulins and more
‘Animalia’ by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
The French author delivers a pastoral that turns on human cruelty
‘Room for a Stranger’ by Melanie Cheng
The medico-writer delivers a novel driven less by storyline than accumulated observation
The desperate, secretive drama: ‘Choice Words’ edited by Louise Swinn
Personal stories consider questions of choice, legality and stigma surrounding abortion
‘Who Killed My Father’ by Édouard Louis (trans. Lorin Stein)
Political rage fuels the French author’s account of a fraught father–son relationship
The bestselling author delivers a nuanced examination of family tragedy
Consciousness is at the heart of the celebrated author’s body of work
Missing witnesses: Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Lost Children Archive’
The Mexican ‘documentary fiction’ writer delivers a polyphonic road trip
‘Unlike the Heart’ by Nicola Redhouse
Motherhood prompts a bracing interrogation of the human mind in this remarkable memoir