This year's Booker winner is political fiction at its laziest
Paul Lynch's Prophet Song was the weak link in a strong shortlist – and the real winner was overlooked
Paul Lynch's Prophet Song was the weak link in a strong shortlist – and the real winner was overlooked
Never mind the A-list – this year’s best books came from unsung names, indie presses and odd archival depths. Read on for the highlights…
At just 48 pages, Jon Fosse’s luminous new novella A Shining is a perfect introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author's work
Anna Biller, director of The Love Witch, turns an aborted film script into a deliciously kitsch, self-critiquing story of a woman in peril
The mere appearance of his 15th novel may be succour, but this paean to storytelling refuses to meet the opportunities it sets itself
László Krasznahorkai channels zen-like peace in A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
This Goldsmiths Prize-winning novel by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams investigates the plight of the exiled Chagos Islanders
A novel about bereavement tries to keep our feelings at a remove – and the result is an icy, unemotional work
Harland Miller’s canvases, increasingly gaudy and eccentrically titled, prove there needn’t be a gulf between high and low culture
In these seven eerie short stories from the author of Fever Dreams, a sense of menace is always hovering around the next corner
This show at V&A Dundee balances the fun and the informative, showing both our wish to conserve nature and our ability to ruin it
Amid an impressively varied shortlist of teasing, intelligent books, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida was truly the stand-out choice
Amy Sherald, one of America’s leading portrait painters, has produced a set of works of extraordinary nuance and technical skill
Lynn Tillman's novels have inspired American authors for decades – why has it taken the UK so long to catch up?
Set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, this evocative novel is both a history of the country and a delicately spun love story
This absorbing survey of work by the Slovakian sculptor is an invitation to see feelingly – and a tribute to children’s intelligence