In our summer fiction supplement, DJ Taylor argues that angry voices of discontent rarely make it into the mainstream, while in a short story Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen follows...

This compelling book tells the story of the last six years of the Syrian conflict through the voices of anti-Assad activists

This quick-fire response to the rise of Donald Trump could become a rallying point for the disaffected and angry

There is nothing useful in asking a disparate and diverse set of people to solve a problem they have little or no control over

This novel, a story about a footballer coming to terms with being gay, is gripping, well-written and moving

Some contrasting views

We are seeing not “the radicalisation of Islam but the Islamisation of radicalism”

Three new political plays invoke the idea of the people, two with naive gusto and one more sceptically

Automation could offer massive opportunities but we must be wary

This well-written micro-biography of Ezra Pound explores the boundary between madness and genuis