Books
Manifesto for how we love now
Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth
Murders for July
The good, the beautiful and the grotesque
The dead city
Romanticism rising from the rubble
Lifeless life of a Technicolor titan
Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written
The renewal of Englishness
Journalist Jason Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents
And never the twain shall meet?
A lineup of new books tackle the thorny China problem
Weeds in the garden
A brilliant new work walks the thorny path of motherhood
Unearthly study of life and death
Yukio Mishima concealed his poignant political commentary in a run-of-the-mill science fiction novel
A bird-lover’s lament
Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain