Philosopher Simon Critchley’s painstaking attempt to explore transcendent experience provides a fascinating overview of Christianity’s great outliers

The author’s memoir recounts his life since the accident that left him paralysed and mixes typically forthright takes on sex and scatology with ruthless candour about his physical state

Populated by tech and pharma hustlers, this bold and highly impressive debut novel has its thumb right over the sore spots of modern life

A memoir by the groundbreaking funk-rock-soul survivor contains all the playfulness and charm of his music but little in the way of insight

The Girls author’s smart, menacing tale of a young female serial deceiver succeeds as a treatise on sex and alienation and an engrossing beach read

The American novelist – typically striding a fine line between profound and preposterous – has brought a new interest in quantum mechanics to the story of two ill-fated siblings

The German film-maker’s partly fictionalised account of an imperial army soldier who refused to surrender until 1974 frustratingly fails to get inside its fascinating subject’s head

The late writer and academic has become a hero of leftwing criticism and this reissued essay collection amply demonstrates why

Plot plays second fiddle to humanity’s primal urges in Moshfegh’s charged and outlandish latest novel set in a medieval fiefdom

This autobiographical novel about a family’s flight from the war that tore Yugoslavia apart considers boyhood, family and endurance