CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class

IAN SINCLAIR relishes a fantastical globetrotting thriller featuring one of the most memorable characters in contemporary literature

The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers

BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul

STEVEN ANDREW is fascinated by an account of the many baseless folk tales that evolved to explain the existence of pre-historic stone circles

GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis

DAVID HARVIE recommends a selection of Harry Cleaver’s writing that documents working-class activism and offers a method, and a way of understanding and investigating the world

DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art

From post-human revolution in Puerto Rico to trans poetics and queer mythmaking, these three books that imagine new ways of being together

JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems

HENRY BELL follows the lineage of revolutions, from the English to the Chinese, and asks where revolutionary politics exists today

SUE TURNER is compelled by a history that shows how far a country can turn in on itself to collude with abuses of power

RON JACOBS is persuaded by the parallel drawn between Charles Manson and Donald Trump

ANDREW MURRAY welcomes a fascinating account of the struggle in Puerto Rico for democracy and independence

ALEX HALL welcomes the memoir of a prominent British academic of Ugandan/Zimbabwean heritage

JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip

GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends a methodical unmasking of the US media’s complicity in the Israeli genocide, that should be a template for what’s needed to bring Britain’s corporate media to book

ALEX HALL is amused at the way the UFOs appear exactly where commercial interests, conspiracies, militarism and right-wing media overlap

MARTIN HALL examines the way the Roman orator took on different schools of philosophy

BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place

ALEX HALL is fascinated by a lucid and historically convincing account of how rent has dominated capitalist economies from feudalism to modernity

ELLIS RAE recommends a stunning history of the active role played by the British monarchy in establishing and profiting from slavery

Gavin O’Toole talks to anti-racism researcher HARRY SHUKMAN about the rise of the far right

CHRISTOPHE DOMEC relishes a dizzyingly precise fiction that relays the problem of reporting the truth

JONATHAN TAYLOR ponders the difference between autobiography and memoir - between life and story - in Margaret Atwood’s account of herself

PAUL DONOVAN enjoys a somewhat rose-tinted survey of Brown’s achievements and legacy, as well as his moments of political cowardice

JOHN GREEN is disappointed by a history of the British working class that retreads familiar paths and offers no new insights

GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends an important, if dispiriting book about the neo-colonial culture of Uganda under Yoweri Museveni

KEN COCKBURN is intrigued by the publication of the Marxist theorist’s reminiscence of a bourgeois childhood

Tyrannosaurs in Thailand, colonialism as videogame, and a feminist gem from 1936

GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a biography of the Marxist intellectual and author, made from the point of view of his son

RON JACOBS recommends an outstanding family memoir of life in Gaza

FIONA O’CONNOR relishes a cinematic exploration of the writing, and the historical context of Thomas Mann’s WWI masterpiece, The Magic Mountain

STEVE ANDREW recommends a Marxist analysis of the long chains of production that global corporations exploit

JONATHAN TAYLOR is intrigued how good storytelling can make a hobby as obsessional as metal detecting seem fascinating

RON JACOBS sees similarities between the personality of the the Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco, and Donald Trump

BRENT CUTLER unpicks the complex social relations imagined in a novel about the builders of Stonehenge

HELEN MERCER recommends a timely history of the Civil Service worker organisation that proposes a principled and strategic approach for the future

ALAN McGUIRE welcomes the complete poems of Seamus Heaney for the unmistakeable memory of colonialism that they carry

JOHN GREEN explores the controversial and popular images of the late Martin Parr, made in the heyday of Thatcherism

Japanese innovation, Costa Rican skullduggery, Glasgow Central suicide, and good deeds punished in London

JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime

MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson

RICHARD MURGATROYD appreciates a study that urges us to think about water differently, as a living entity with its own logic and intelligence

BRENT CUTLER welcomes a valuable contribution to discussions around the need to de-carbonise energy production

STEVE ANDREW is intrigued by a timely and well-researched book that demonstrates the conflicted history of the central Asian country

JENNY FARRELL reminds us that the US novelist, famed for pulp fiction and nature stories, was, by virtue of life experience, a committed revolutionary socialist

BRENT CUTLER recommends a sober examination of the real risks and true merits of nuclear energy, and an exposure of the capitalist system as an obstacle to human betterment

JONATHAN TAYLOR is fascinated by the philosophical problems that permeate the art of life-writing

ALAN MCGUIRE relishes a celebration of handmade craftsmanship in the UK, and hears a quiet warning

JENNY FARRELL relishes an intimate memoir about growing up in the household of the great Irish communist and playwright Sean O’Casey

BRENT CUTLER is intrigued by the imperialist, supremacist and contradictory history of a word that is used all too easily

PETER MASON is beguiled by a fascinating account of the importance of cricket to immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK

GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes, and recommends a a candid, evidence-based record of Britain’s role in the slaughter visited by Israel upon the Palestinians

PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change

KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book

MARTIN HALL welcomes a study of Britain’s relationship with the EU that sheds light on the way euroscepticism moved from the margins to the centre

GAVIN O’TOOLE savours a veteran correspondent’s account of the monumental US failure in Afghanistan

ALEX HALL recommends a considered and clear approach to dismantling apartheid and occupation, were Israel to come to its senses

ALEX HALL is disappointed by a superficial investigation of how consumer choice can be influenced, that ignores the fact that most never have such a choice

PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK

MARJORIE MAYO recommends a compelling account of how women survived a Nazi concentration camp and lend their experience to today’s fight against the far right

Essays on contemporary Latin American feminism, a poetry debut by a queer Texan of Mexican heritage, and a lush volume of tango and milonga drawings

RON JACOBS recommends an accessible graphic history of the Partisans and their many instances of heroic and successful resistance to fascism

ALEX HALL recommends an exhaustive investigation of the means by which the Starmer faction assassinated the left

This thriller is a politically charged and morally complex dive into climate activism and police repression, judges JENNY FARRELL

Cat show killer, avenging the pawns, women hunt the Ripper, and running dry in the outback

JOHN GREEN is enchanted by the story of women’s farm work, both now and the the 1940s, that brims with political and social insight

RON JACOBS is moved to tears by an eloquent journal of heartfelt intensity and human portraiture

ROBERT OVETZ recommends a case study, from the University of Leicester, in their struggle against precarization, AI, privatisation, outsourcing, and work intensification in higher education

IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a lucid critique of a technology that reproduces and enables oppression, power, and environmental devastation

JOE GILL appreciates a lucid demonstration of how capital today is an outgrowth of the colonial economy

PAUL DONOVAN recommends three new books that explore the human relationship with nature

MARJORIE MAYO is moved by the clarity with which the FBU call out the true causes of this preventable tragedy

KENNY MACASKILL delivers his assessment of Nicloa Sturgeon’s account of her political career

ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party

GAVIN O’TOOLE examines the fatal relationship between environmental crimes and politics in Brazil and the inspiration provided by Indigenous people

GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism

Timeloop murder, trad family MomBomb, Sicilian crime pages and Craven praise

RON JACOBS rides shotgun with a member of Black Bloc on the wave of anti-capitalist protests of the 1990s and early 2000s

MATTHEW SHARPE recommends the essays of a Renaissance politician that instruct and unnerve after 400 years

PAUL BUHLE agrees that a grassroots movements for change in needed in the US, independent of electoral politics

JOHN HAWKINS wrestles with the anti-humanist fantasies of techno-feudalist thinking

With reservations, RON JACOBS recommends a deep dive into the nature, history, and mindset of US intelligence

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends that these beautifully written diaries from Gaza be essential reading for thick-skinned MPs

JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR

Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest

ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes an exuberant blend of emotion and analysis that captures the politics and contrarian nature of the French composer

SALEEM BADAT and VASU REDDY introduce a new book about an outstanding interpreter of the world, and an activist scholar committed to changing society

PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by a deep dive into contemporary social crises, that examines how they are manipulated by elites

HENRY BELL notes the curious confluence of belief, rebuilding and cheap materials that gave rise to an extraordinary number of modernist churches in post-war Scotland

MARTIN HALL passes time in the sanguine company of a traditional conservative, recalling their disastrous governments

JOHN HAWKINS welcomes the passion, grief, precision and elegance of an eloquent witness of genocide

ALEX HALL is thrilled by a grassroots history of of Swindon’s stunning industrial and creative past

JOHN GREEN isn’t helped by the utopian fantasy of a New York Times bestseller that ignores class struggle and blames the so-called ’progressives’

IAN SINCLAIR wades through a useful but academic study of the protest song

GORDON PARSONS recommends a gripping account of flawed justice in the case of Pinochet and the Nazi fugitive Walther Rauff

A corrupted chemist, a Hampstead homosexual and finely observed class-conflict at The Bohemia

TOMASZ PIERSCIONEK relishes a detailed history of the battles, manoeuvres and tactics that defeated fascism

MARJORIE MAYO recommends a disturbing book that seeks to recover traces of the past that have been erased by Israeli colonialism

RON JACOBS salutes a magnificent narrative that demonstrates how the war replaced European colonialism with US imperialism and Soviet power

ANDY HEDGECOCK admires a critique of the penetration of our lives by digital media, but is disappointed that the underlying cause is avoided

PETER MASON is surprised by the bleak outlook foreseen for cricket’s future by the cricketers’ bible

GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world

ELIZABETH SHORT recommends a bracing study of energy intensive AI and the race of such technology towards war profits

RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery

HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come

CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington

STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves

JONATHAN TAYLOR is intrigued by an account of the struggle of Soviet-era musicians to adapt to the strictures of social realism

GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin

CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity