Books

Flawed primer on a Classical master

A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect

The genius that was Dr Strangelove

Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death

What a piece of work is man

Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods

A most unreliable culture warrior

Not reactionary, just drawn that way

The cult of the father

A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

This history of sport fails to bowl over

An inadequate night watchmen of the genre

Silver spoons and sob stories

What makes an heiress?

Our man in Hungary

The past is never very far away in Adam LeBor’s new thriller

Touchy-feely and not that new really

We’re more than our emotions

Much more than just a cunning linguist

Patricia Highsmith’s voluminous diaries paint a full picture of their author