FIONA O’CONNOR questions the achievement of this year’s Orwell prize winner for political fiction

FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama

FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within

FIONA O’CONNOR casts a weary eye over a superficial and tonally complacent satire of US religious capitalism

FIONA O’CONNOR and MARIA DUARTE review Romeria, Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition, Remarkably Bright Creatures, and The Sheep Detectives

FIONA O’CONNOR welcomes the the return of the Barbellion prize for disabled writers

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

Despite an underwhelming finale, FIONA O CONNOR relishes a vivid exploration of the Cinecitta of Pasolini and Fellini at their height

FIONA O’CONNOR picks books and films that show defiance in the face of violence and injustice

FIONA O’CONNOR rejoices in the long-overdue exposure of the secretive, brutish hinterland of ultra-conservative Catholic Ireland

MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O CONNOR and JOHN GREEN review The Choral, Belen, Dragonfly, and Colossal Wreck

FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family