Books

Monuments to victory and loss

This is a beautifully illustrated, handsomely printed and thorough, scholarly exposition of the triumphal arch

Template for technocrats

Nudge taught a generation of experts how to manipulate the public, free from scrutiny

Lover, muse, artist

The aim of this new biography is to re-establish this undeservedly overlooked artist

A classic work of unbridled joy

This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language

A tale of two Keirs

Keir Starmer lacks the star-power to become Prime Minister

Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent

This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book

War-war leads to jaw-jaw

This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache

Television tome that needs tuning

The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth

Murders for August

What masterpieces hide on tired and musty shelves?

The belief system doesn’t add up

How the quest to eliminate sex in civil society taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality