RUTH AYLETT admires the blunt honesty with which a woman’s experience is recorded, but detects the unexamined privilege that underlies it

IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis

High quality pulp, rollicking online murders, Abnorman Britain, and high skates drama: reviews of The Get Off, Everyone In The Group Chat Dies, Pagans and First To Fall

DENNIS BROE notes what happens to content when the streaming giants incorporate AI and deregulation into their economic models

New releases from The Tenementals, Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, and Kuunatic

SCOTT ALSWORTH hears the call to burn down and rebuild the video game industry from the bottom up

The Chinese language only introduced a feminine pronoun in the 1920s. Now, it might adopt a gender-inclusive one, suggests JANET DAVEY 

ALEX HALL is intrigued by a detailed history of Gaza that demonstrates its historic resilience and changing economy

RON JACOBS welcomes the long overdue translation of an epic work that chronicles resistance to fascism during WWII

MAYER WAKEFIELD is chilled by the co-dependency of two lost souls as portrayed by German communist playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz

The Star's critics BRETT GREGORY, JOHN GREEN, MICHAEL BONCZA and ANGUS REID review The Stimming Pool, Misericordia, La Cocina, Irena’s Vow, and The End

CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre

ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles

MARK TURNER is staggered by a gifted jazz pianist from the Welsh Valleys

JESSICA WIDNER explores how the twin themes of violence and love run through the novels of South Korean Nobel prize-winner Han Kang

SARAH TROTT explores short fictional slices of life in the American midwest from a middle-aged and mostly female perspective

New releases from Black Country, New Road, Anouar Brahem, and Jaywalkers

RICHARD CLARKE recommends a hugely valuable text for those seeking theoretical analysis and practical action to defend public services