Donald Trump features prominently in this exposé of the lengths private investigators will go to when asked by wealthy and prominent individuals to dig the dirt on their adversaries

Craig Taylor spent six years interviewing the people of New York for his latest book, and the result crackles with raw urban energy

Seamus O’Mahony’s memoir of working life at Cork University Hospital is a fascinating mix of contrariness, despair and resignation

Movie journalist Helen O’Hara pulls no punches in her analysis of women in front of, and behind, the camera in Tinseltown

New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert has written a fascinating tour de force about our chances of reversing the bleak trajectory of climate change

Eliot Higgins’s account of how he set up his online intelligence collective Bellingcat is an eye-opening read

A lucid and succinct chronicle of the US’s decline in status as world leader and the rise of China to take its place

Stephen Jackley’s efforts to steal from the rich and give to the poor saw him come a cropper before long, as retold in this entertaining account of his life of crime

Rachel Clarke’s new book is a scathing condemnation of the British government’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis

Although unsparing about the pain and fear of living with Parkinson’s in his latest memoir, Michael J Fox expresses gratitude for the astonishing life and career he has enjoyed

Two renowned social scientists have teamed up to filter modern-day America through the prism of 1895

Noreena Hertz’s timely and wide-ranging study highlights the increasing social dangers of isolation and loneliness

Emily Cockayne’s forensic trawl through the history of reused, redeemed and reinvented objects unearths some fascinating nuggets

Matthew Crawford’s new book argues that driving is a way of affirming our personal sovereignty against the march of technology

This staycation summer, our writers invite you on their journeys abroad, real and imagined

Sometimes it’s more important to look closely at the figures behind the numbers, as Sanne Blauw points out in this entertaining account of how we read and interpret the increasingly complex data presented to us

A new history of swimming sprinkles its pages with characters as diverse as Plato, Lord Byron and Ursula Andress

For Dara McAnulty, a passionate conservationist, the natural world provides the meaning and emotion that can sometimes be missing in human relationships

A new book rigorously examines the core beliefs of both the left and the right

It was Catherine the Great who first saw the potential for Russia to become an influential musical nation while also establishing the country as a great and often brutal European power