Books

Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth

The good, the beautiful and the grotesque

Romanticism rising from the rubble

Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death

There is better crime fiction being written

Journalist Jason Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents

A lineup of new books tackle the thorny China problem

A brilliant new work walks the thorny path of motherhood

Yukio Mishima concealed his poignant political commentary in a run-of-the-mill science fiction novel

Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain