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A Booker winner, a comedy and Hitler’s obsession with Einstein

Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.

  • Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll

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There’s a bumper selection of new books to read this May.

‘Inconvenient women’, mortality and a controversial work by Joan Didion: 13 new books to delve into

From a book that its own author may not have approved of to a beautiful and confronting photography collection, there’s a bumper crop of releases this month.

  • Jason Steger
Katie Kitamura’s novel demonstrates that stories themselves are equal parts light and shadow.

This hotly anticipated novel explores the dark embers of the psyche

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”.

  • Jessie Tu
Tom Hanks’ daughter E A Hanks.

Tom Hanks’ daughter reveals a childhood marred by abuse at the hands of her mother

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.

  • Nathan Smith
Vials of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19.

Does the US suffer from an abundance of good intentions?

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.

  • Andrew Leigh
We think of desire as being something intrinsically human. But these drugs seem to indicate that it’s just science.

‘Miracle’ weight-loss drugs shut down desire, but where’s the fun in that?

Drugs such as Ozempic cut our craving for food. But they can’t control our hunger for all the good things in life.

  • Jacqueline Maley
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Eight new books to take you from rock ‘n’ roll to the joy of nature

Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.

  • Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
Author and director Nora Ephron.

Two new books delve into the 20th century’s wittiest women

Nora Ephron and Dorothy Parker lived in different times but had much in common.

  • Tom Ryan
Yoko Ono

This new biography of Yoko Ono is a compelling, if one-sided, read

Biographer David Sheff first met John Lennon and Yoko Ono shortly before Lennon was murdered in 1981, and has remained friends with Ono since.

  • JP O'Malley
James Bradley’s new novel is climate noir.

James Bradley’s new novel subverts the classic crime-solving trope

Landfall, like Bradley’s previous two novels centres on exploring the impacts and possible remedies to the human-induced climate crisis.

  • Justine Hyde

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