Books

The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart

When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?

Romance rethink

An optimistic rejoinder to common dating advice

Patchett is as good as she needs to be

Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai

I’m so over Exposed

Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back by Clare McGlynn

A bloodless account of blood-soaked times

Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy

Rock star variations

Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber

Rendering the word of God in English

500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation

Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin

A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union

Murders for July

Your summer holiday reading is sorted here

The errata of history

Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders