Books

There are now so many awards that not winning one must seem a source of shame

Islam outside the West preserves much of its traditional character, but Islam within the West is in danger of petrifying

Nick Cohen reveals how this book, along with hundreds of political writers like him, ducks the reality of working class life

This book is so colourful and well told that it should interest even those who find the game of Cricket dull

Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release

Anne Sebba’s book on Ethel Rosenberg is a towering memorial

Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty

Age hasn’t withered Dylan. He was always running towards it, arms open wide.

How the Anglophile Kaiser Wilhelm went to war with Britain

This book offers an insider’s account of the extraordinary (in)decision-making among Johnson’s team during the most tumultuous year in modern history