Dear Life: lessons on living from the dying

Psychiatry: Susannah Cahalan reveals how the results of a famous study into psychiatric malpractice weren’t as clear cut as they initially appeared

Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt was heralded by other writers and the publishing industry alike, until a backlash about her ethnicity – and whether she was the right person to tell the story she did – nearly swallowed her whole. She stands by her work while acknowledging it has opened up a necessary conversation about who the gatekeepers are, in publishing and in life

Fiction: Everything’s a joke until it’s not in Anne Enright’s brilliant new novel