Lanchester, Groff and Costello — reviewed by Hannah Kent and Tim Rogers

What if the most talked‑about streaming show of the moment was a mirror reflecting your most private fears and failures? That unnerving question sits at the heart of John Lanchester’s Look What You Made Me Do, a sharp novel about resentment, revenge, money, class and generational unease. Plus: the art of the short story, as Hannah Kent reads and reflects on Lauren Groff’s new collection Brawler; and a woman’s inner life rendered with quiet and devastating precision in Mary Costello’s A Beautiful Loan.BOOKSJohn Lanchester, Look What You Made Me Do, FaberLauren Groff, Brawler, Hutchinson HeinemannMary Costello, A Beautiful Loan, TextGUESTSHannah Kent, novelist behind the phenomenon Burial Rites + The Good People, Devotion and Always Home, Always HomesickTim Rogers, author of Detours; frontman of You Am I, The Hard-Ons and various musical escapades. His solo tour Le Charme Defensif kicks off this weekOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDAndrew O'Hagan, Caledonian RoadCharlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë, Wuthering HeightsMichelle de Krester, Theory and PracticeJacqueline Maley, Lonely MouthErin Somers, The Ten Year Affair James Joyce, The Dubliners; The Dead Thomas Mann, The Magic MountainColm Tóibín, The MagicianSteve Hanley, The Big Midweek: Life Inside the FallCREDITSPresenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullaghProducer: Kate Evans, Sarah CorbettSound: Craig Tilmouth, Antonia GauciArts editor; Sarah L'Estrange