Books

Reinvention and rediscoveries

An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination

Murders for June

Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries

The solipsistic siren

The sexual liberation and unrequited search of Nancy Cunard emblematises 1920s Paris

A game of thrones

Shelley Puhak’s woman-versus-woman rivalry between queens is only part of the story

High politics and unholy power plays

British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception

Surviving the love of a psychopath

Norman Scott gets the last word against the man who raped and plotted to murder him

Bombastic lecture on the evil empire

From the suppression of colonial documents, Caroline Elkins spins a tale of violence

Unholy politics and a Christian exodus

Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction

The Sexual Revolution has failed Generation X women

More freedom won’t cure the disease

Time for us all to grow up

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