Evans’s latest work can be read as part of her ongoing inquiry into the ways we survive in a world of vampiric thirst and intoxicated protocol

Books by Cindy Pham, Wren James, Edward Schmidt, Tom Ramsay and Kai Spellmeier

Late writer’s memoir is equally striking in its treatment of female desire and the need to be seen

David Thompson, having devoted his life to writing about film, suggests the medium has begun to diminish our very nature

A deeply researched yet readable survey of Slav-Teuton antagonisms from the late 1800s to the present

Keith Kahn-Harris does his subject matter a great service in a book that is not just about the Black Sabbath frontman, but about legacy and mortality too

While the technical reasons are convincingly explained, they feel like basic common sense

The critic’s love and care shine through in this compendium of her theatre writing from 1984 to the present

Works by Mary Daly, Bernie McQuillan and Chloë Ashby

This is a portrait of a mother with a stunningly unfeminist approach to mothering and all of her personal relationships

Ninth novel from Indian author questions expectations and notions of ‘classic’ French ideal

As in The Godfather, the characters are bound not just by crime and family, but because they are immigrants

The author argues that democracy is built to facilitate abject inequality, not to combat it

Lister argues that women have never been less sexual than men, but the narrative has been controlled with a firm male grip

This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë benefits from access to the writer’s rediscovered poetry notebook and Lutz’s expert reappraisals of her poems

New fiction from Emily Hourican, Catherine Doyle, Ciara O’Connor, Shane Hegarty, Christopher Galvin, Mitch Johnson, Matt Oldfield, Gordon D’Arcy and Paul Howard

Mícheál McCann reviews new collections by Rachel Long, Billy Ramsell, Máighréad Medbh and Moyra Donaldson

There are plenty of villains in the Donegal writer’s authoritative probe on how gambling has infected soccer’s soul

Authors Richard Heller and Peter Oborne bat for the greatest thing on God’s Earth in this well-researched book

There was, the author writes, ‘no history of what had happened to me’ or historical women, of ‘experiences long considered to be too private... to be admitted as true history’