Brian Dillon

This works as both memoir about a broken marriage and a dissection of the writing life

This nonfiction is memoir, polemic, essay, experiment and furious tally of hideous men

A dazzling, intimate autobiographical work by a writer of rare allure and learning

Book review: Much to admire in collection of essays and articles but boyish traits grate

Review: Owen Hatherley’s tour of European architecture does not go far enough

‘In the Dark Room’: How an effort to write a cultural history of memory became a deeply personal memoir

Much of ‘Brainstorm’ is about O’Sullivan’s efforts to keep her faculties keen and her sympathies attuned to surprises

Review: ‘The Only Story’ is also a work of carefully tamped fury at post-war fate of women

Edited by Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith, this third edition has many fantastic moments, including work by Eimear McBride and Sara Baume

The novel keenly observes the middle age of its recently separated narrator

Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays review – Tom McCarthy is always alert to advancing fronts of innovation and information

Seasoned TV critic Clive James’s appraisal of the box-set era is witty if conventional

Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2016, a neurologist writes compelling cases of physical illnesses that have no apparent cause

An engaging and curious introduction to a writer who was once widely considered an eccentric paragon of English prose but is now thought a mere curio, writes Brian Dillon

Lack of direction, penetration and vigour makes for a tedious and banal read, says Brian Dillon