In this heartfelt memoir, the columnist considers how a century-long commitment to human improvement inspired her family

The journalist’s story of how his parents lived through the Holocaust reads like a thriller, but it’s the wider focus on how liberal values were powerless in the face of fascism that makes it a modern classic

This epic political novel traces the country from Japanese occupation through partition, as experienced by a family of railway workers

Marriage is a dare and coupledom is complicated in this perceptive take on modern love

The American author talks about growing up queer in a family of ‘wolves’, poverty and class in the US, and the 19th-century writers who inspired his latest novel

The Bulgarian writer opens up about the political fears that informed his prize-winner Time Shelter, about ‘a Pandora’s box of weaponised nostalgia’