Books
Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?
Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks
The unlikely miracle of Trump’s presidency
Trump’s inability to articulate any substantive thought renders a respected journalist’s new book unreadable
Well wicked women
If she were a man, Lisa HIlton would surely be celebrated as the roving public intellectual she so clearly is
No prefix required: how gay writers came of age
Douglas Murray refuses to mourn the death of the gay novel — a genre that was once ghettoised has joined the mainstream
This way, madness lies
Using the name Shakespeare in your book title shouldn’t do anything for sales
Shakespearean lore and order
A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost
Farewell to Utopia
An erudite call to return to a more sceptical and prudential kind of politics
Big Brother versus liberty
Firmin DeBrabander’s philosophical musings are the checklist of a left-wing, “progressive” academic
The making of Donald Trump
In his new book, Gerald Seib asks whether the turn towards nationalism and populism in the US is permanent
Appealing and not-so appealing
If Martin Amis isn’t entertaining you on every page, then what’s the point of him?