Plus big ideas for improving the world in Future Perfect

Her new novel Unsheltered stands up for decency in the face of an indecent president— and asks tough questions about her country’s origins

Plus Andrea Levy's The Long Song on screen

Plus the documentary Capernaum about a Lebanese boy suing his parents

The author has been praised by Zadie Smith—and rightly so

Books to help us understand our world

Plus Stuart MacRae's Anthropocene

Knausgaard's six volume saga breaks taboos right up to the last. What comes next is another question

In The Wall John Lanchester takes an imaginative leap into Britain’s future to dramatise anxieties about inequality, mass migration and climate change

From Adam Smith to Adam Tooze