All Fours by Miranda July audiobook review – the frank, sexy novel everyone’s been talking about
The author’s hypnotic reading evokes the desires and existential crisis of a 45-year-old woman on a wild road trip
Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp review – wild, absurd and wickedly funny
This outrageous skewering of the modern dating landscape confronts toxic masculinity and the contradictions of female desire
Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt review – an exquisite tale of first love
The poet’s debut novel is a transcendent portrait of gay desire that pays homage to the English literary tradition
Luminous by Silvia Park review – a major new voice in SF
From humans with robotic body parts to robots with human emotions, a vibrant debut set in a unified Korea examines what it means to be a person
Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp review – a TikTok Stepford Wives for the Pornhub era
This startling debut follows a young woman on a surreal and bluntly graphic quest to be the perfect girlfriend
Out of the Woods by Gretchen Shirm review – a compelling reflection on bearing witness
For her fourth novel, the former lawyer draws on her experience working as a legal intern in the UN tribunal for former Yugoslavia
Sister Europe by Nell Zink review – ramshackle wanderers in Berlin
Zink’s seventh novel, about a night of conversation and adventure, is full of wit and marvellous writing, but ultimately trails off
In brief: The Homemade God; Mythica; There Are Rivers in the Sky – review
Long-buried truths leave siblings reeling when their father dies; a fascinating reclamation of Homer’s forgotten women; and still waters run deep in a centuries-spanning novel
Novelist Kiley Reid: ‘Consumption cannot fix racism’
The American author on the follow-up to her bestselling debut Such a Fun Age, why she loves characters you want to shake, and reading 160 novels for the Booker prize
‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata
The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’
The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce review – portrait of a patriarch
The mysterious death of an artist causes havoc among siblings in a novel that astutely observes family dynamics
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Fair Play by Louise Hegarty; All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman; This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen; The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie; Death and Other Occupations by Veronika Dapunt
The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana review – a startling road trip as original as it is timely
Two discontented young men embark on a journey that the reader quickly knows will be violent and doomed – and yet this novel remains almost unbearably tense
Days of Light by Megan Hunter review – Bohemian rhapsody
The privileged world of Bloomsbury group is vividly evoked in this novel of a life shaped by devastating loss
Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh review – teenage dreams
The tale of a 17-year-old Irish boy’s painful summer of romance and uncertain friendship captures the tenderness and menace of young men