Jumping between London and Ireland, it can feel like two distinct works, about two distinct women

Author argues convincingly that soccer’s Faustian bargain with big moneyed interests is undermining its sporting competitiveness and moral integrity

Along the way, the author, who became paralysed after a fall in late 2022, laments the ‘North Korea of the mind’ he believes young writers impose upon themselves

Knife is surprisingly upbeat for a book about being stabbed in the head

This an enjoyable highlights reel of stores from From Barcelona to Brazil that show why football has a special legitimacy as the people’s game

This book of two distinct parts is a discomfitting read because the author clearly hasn’t worked through his issues

Theatre: What artistic benefit is derived from having a single actor play all the parts?

A playful enjoyment in words and language permeates this collection

The wife of the unassuming, forgettable Bob leaves him for his best friend. And who could blame her?

Author’s first work of long-form fiction follows her 2022 short story collection, How to Gut a Fish

There is little of the freewheeling playfulness that animated the author’s impressive 2019 short story collection, Show Them a Good Time

Author writes chapters on liberal thinkers from Adam Smith to Friedrich Hayek but his fear of tyranny has blinded him to the benefits of state intervention

Book review: Pankaj Mishra on the slippery subject of class in vivid portraits of three Indian men

Book review: Amitava Kumar’s novel strains a bit too hard to speak to the moment

Book review: These neatly crafted short stories find poetry in the rituals of domesticity