Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now
From dazzling debuts to unmissable memoirs, prize-winning novels to page-turning histories … Plus our pick of paperbacks and children’s fiction
How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast review – Erica Jong’s daughter on the worst year of her life
In this frank, exposing memoir, Jong-Fast reflects on her dysfunctional upbringing as her family falls apart
Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path
Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir about her and her husband’s 630-mile trek around England’s south coast has become a film. Its stars, makers and Winn talk floods, fog and forgiveness
The Salt Path review – Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs hike from ruin to renewal
Marianne Elliott directs this affecting drama, based on Raynor Winn’s memoir, which builds steadily as the couple journey towards redemption
Joy Schaverien obituary
Psychoanalyst and art therapist hailed for her bestselling 2015 book Boarding School Syndrome
What I learned when I thought I was about to die: being too aware of life’s blessings can become a curse
While waiting in hospital, Miranda Luby wondered how you are supposed to find meaning when you know you could die any moment. Then, she found her answer
Sarah Wilson: ‘Worrying about your gut biome when the world’s burning is too indulgent’
From I Quit Sugar to the ‘shittification of life’, writer and journalist Sarah Wilson on breaking up with hope and finding happiness in collapse theory
Pathemata by Maggie Nelson review – a writer’s attempt to describe chronic pain
Woolf said language ‘runs dry’ when it comes to convey the reality of illness. Here is an impressive effort to do just that
Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – why you quit your job to make the world a better place
A bracingly hopeful call for high-flyers to ditch corporate drudgery in favour of something far more ambitious
The truth about stress: from the benefits of the ‘good kind’ to the exercise that only makes it worse
The authors of a new book explain why understanding the science of stress can help us manage it better