Books

Time for us all to grow up

Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?

Walking the path of the stupidly rich

Serious Money tracks the excesses and indulgences of those with wealth to burn

A radical reframing of conservative tradition

Yoram Hazony’s purified conservatism risks losing touch with political reality

New stories from a very old city

A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes

Heroism and high strategy

The story of how British commandos did the impossible

Rich history of the revolutionary poor

When rebellion stalked the streets of London

Going to the ends of the earth

A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific

Prize-winner reprises and rediscovered tales

From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month

A square prehistory of popular music

Rock versus pop, and orchestral numbers versus guitar solos

How do you solve a problem like memoir?

A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre