Books
Know your Catalan onions
Gerald Frost reviews Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity by Venetia Johannes
There’s no need to shout
Patrick West reviews You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy
A plague of words
Who will write the Great Novel of the Coronavirus?
The Implied Fascist
Roland Elliott Brown reviews How to be a Fascist by Michela Murgia
True Feminism has Never Been Tried, Comrade
Alexander Adams reviews Women Can’t Paint by Helen Gørrill
Eat more meat!
Jamie Blackett discovers the more meat the better in Charlie Spedding’s book: Stop Feeding Us Lies
West British landscapes
Andrew McKinley reviews Robert Lynch’s ‘The Partition of Ireland 1918-1925’
American psychos
Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
Wandsworth’s white-collar clubmen
Alexander Larman reviews A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins
Cancel the war on progressives
Cancel culture hurts most those who cheer it on
An appreciation of the late John Simon
Andrew Cusack remembers the apotheosis of criticism
The all-round smart cookie with a tin ear
Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest
Studio: Election Artists
Michael Prodger takes a look at the artists who paint politics
Charismatic charlatan
Benjamin Disraeli could change his mind without turning a hair
Squaring the Afghan Peace Deal
Afghanistan is a general disaster which touches everyone and was enabled by everyone