What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June

, translated by Bela Shayevich and Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse. The exiled activist and journalist explains the “love” in the title as being like the love she has for her leg or arm: she has to care about it and react when it hurts, whether she wants to or not.

There are encounters with Indigenous communities, environmental activists, queer people in remote villages and towns, sex workers, and inmates in closed psychiatric institutions, whose treatment Kostyuchenko characterises as “the real face of my state” and an early indication of fascist intolerance.

Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking by Han Smith is published by John Murray . To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at, I didn’t want to just wait around for season two, so I picked up copies of the book and its sequels. I was hooked from the start: the pacing and detailed explanations and world building once again prove that the book is always better than the show.

Cyberpunk was perhaps the most important trend in science fiction in the 1980s and 90s, but since then it’s often reduced in memory to a particular aesthetic of future-noir thriller represented by Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. So, edited by Jared Shurin is a huge, eye-opening, mind-blowing surprise.

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