Why have we never heard of most of the young writers on the latest “Best of …” list?

A new book deconstructs nihilistic pretensions of intellectuals

A new novel brilliantly skewers gender theory

Taylor’s impressive second biography of Orwell is more than justified

Sex positivity drains the erotic of existential meaning

Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun

A new book takes a valuable tour of the Isle of Man

Changes in the early modern period forced people to look at themselves anew

Hayek was not, and always insisted that he was not, a laissez-faire economist

From an old-fashioned tale to a new-fashioned one, with a dash of dystopia