Books
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people
In praise of post-liberalism
Michaela Community School is unique in its robust defence of tradition, truth, belonging and other conservative instincts
Raunchy tale of pedigree chums
The spouse of a longstanding MP has an opportunity to offer a particular perspective
How not to earn a living
More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer
Preposterous pipedreams
Varoufakis’s new novel, Another Now, is full of incoherent blather between dolts
The lasting power of simple virtues
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
Catnip for culture lovers
Contrasting works from a veteran master of invention and two newer faces who blur fact and fiction
Inside the room where it happens
John Bolton’s account of his time in the Trump administration gives a damning report of the president’s ignorance
Derrida deconstructed
Derrida’s prose, which stops being turgid only in order to be turbid, is utterly incomprehensible