Books
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
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers