Books
My Body: a lesson in self-awareness
It would be easy to deride Emily Ratajowski as a hypocrite, but there is something deeper underneath her famous looks
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
Murders for late November
From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not
Her story repeats itself
Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking
The scatalogical subversive
Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep
What’s told is news again
Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street
Opiate for the leftists
How Wokeism tries (and succeeds) at filling a religion-shaped void within the American left’s psyche
Overarching view of the air war
These two volumes are a solid starting point for understanding the British and Commonwealth air war
Murders for early November
As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder
The fanatical commissar of killing
An engaging and thoroughly readable new biography on Boris Savinkov
