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Sarah Brigham’s new production is beautifully designed but struggles to capture the drama’s claustrophobic tension

A night of violence exposes the dynamics of race, masculinity and privilege at play in America’s schools

A new perspective on the birth of New York; a magic realist story about a broken-down songwriter; and a resonant tale about a diver keeping the internet’s undersea network alive

A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimonies

THE READING LIST: In his new memoir, illustrious New York-based editor Graydon Carter travels back in time to the ‘golden era’ of print magazines, painting a picture of six-figure salaries, petty fights with stars, and carte blanche with the company credit card. Annabel Nugent mourns a bygone era

Twelve years after her last novel, best-selling Nigerian author and feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is making a highly anticipated return with "Dream Count".

The International Booker-longlisted Italian novelist on why he chose to rewrite Georges Perec, his preference for description over dialogue and being part of an anti-gentrification collective in Milan

BEING called brave is a description that Rebecca Lawrence does not recognise.

Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International Booker

Night People: How To Be a DJ in 1990s New York is out in September

An honest and intensely moving book about the struggle of parenthood and the power of connection