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Erin Williams’s graphic memoir is a vital and challenging meditation on the daily transgressions women face from men, writes Simon Shiel
Yoko Ogawa’s latest novel translated into English explores control of collective and individual memory under a totalitarian regime, reports Chris Bateman
Kristen Roupenian’s debut collection assesses the psyche of modern America and conjures modern day folk stories, writes Chris Bateman
David Evans’ 33⅓ book on the Manics’ masterpiece is a reminder of the album’s strength as a recurring galvanising force, argues Claire Biddles
Richard King’s The Lark Ascending is cultural history at its most invigorating, a work of connections made through music and across the landscape
Writer and cartoonist Brian Fies’s graphic memoir about the Californian wildfires of 2017 gives voice to a community rebuilding after the devastation
Kristen Alvanson’s intoxicating work of theory-fiction for the K-Pulp series delivers a fiction virus into reality via an experimental teleportation system
Stagdale is more than a lovely curio, its intersection of music and graphic storytelling offers a vivid experience and fresh possibilities
Tracey Thorn traces her past as a teenager in suburbia with a book that beautifully combines memoir, music and psychogeography
Roy Christopher’s study of how hip-hop defines the future for Repeater Books is intellectually daring crate digging and a fresh take on the genre
Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder gets the selected lyrics treatment from Faber and it manages to capture the spirit of Madchester on the page
Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall’s critical compendium gives a three-dimensional view of planet Sopranos and Chris Bateman delights in the details
An original graphic novel charts Warhol in genesis, from fashionwear illustrator to face of a movement, although Simon Shiel wonders how substantial it is
Acosta’s 1972 The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo has been reissued into an alarmingly unchanged world and is as relevant as ever, argues Chris Bateman
Simon Shiel is brought closer to the horrific power of Octavia E Butler’s novel in the comic book adaptation with its bold dramatic visuals
The first novel for the Thirteenth Doctor riffs on how a single event can, if exploited by those in pursuit of power, turn history on its head
Kathy Acker sifts through multitudinous identities and tries on different voices as she recycles Charles Dickens and avoids the shadow of William Burroughs
Chris Bateman rubs shoulders with punk Flamenco singers, accountants and death as he considers Leonard Cohen’s sweet swansong
Chris Bateman views Alasdair Gray’s translation of Dante as being in the tradition of the best Scottish thinkers from the Enlightenment onwards
Panos Cosmatos’s midnight movie starring Nicholas Cage has a delicate relationship at its core, although also features graphic violence, tigers, Cheese-Goblins and exploding heads
Simon Shiel delights in this cluttered treasure trove of Wes Anderson information, yet wishes it had addressed the accusations of cultural appropriation and poor representation
Stewart Gardiner praises the structurally audacious biography / autobiography of David Lynch
The Fourth Doctor and Romana make a splendid return in James Goss’s novelisation of a lost Doctor Who treatment by the late, great Douglas Adams
In this archival interview, Stewart Gardiner speaks with the director of the 2007 David Lynch documentary Lynch (One)
How a moment of darkness on a painter’s canvas led Lynch to film