Books

Sissy porn and trans dirty laundry

Louise Perry reviews Females by Andrea Long Chu

Sharing the pleasure in poetry

James Booth reviews ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin’

A keen nose and sharp prose

David Womersley reviews Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh

Why do we review books?

D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages

Airline Maps: A century of art and design

An enjoyable visual book that acts as a history of aviation

A good read but variable as history

A Short History of London is good on architecture but a more sophisticated analysis is needed

A flawed first draft of history

Theresa May’s former political secretary on the biography that doesn’t get her right

The great inquisitor of Splott

John Humphrys’ A Day Like Today touches lightly on his early career, which is a shame

Eternal resurrection

James Orr reviews Tom Holland’s Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

The brutal purging of God

Giles Udy on Godless Utopia by Roland Elliott Brown