The best books of the week

Édouard Louis talks class, family and homophobia with Simon Kuper; how maps shape our worldview; George Saunders’ Faulkneresque new novel; Soviet life in the post-Stalin era; new novels by Nadia Davids and Rob Doyle; Wayne McGregor’s call to cultivate bodily intelligence; Alex Clark’s pick of audiobooks — plus seven titles to understand events in Iran