Books
Brexlit and the decline of the English novel
Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight
Sissy porn and trans dirty laundry
Louise Perry reviews Females by Andrea Long Chu
Sharing the pleasure in poetry
James Booth reviews ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin’
A keen nose and sharp prose
David Womersley reviews Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
Airline Maps: A century of art and design
An enjoyable visual book that acts as a history of aviation
A good read but variable as history
A Short History of London is good on architecture but a more sophisticated analysis is needed
A flawed first draft of history
Theresa May’s former political secretary on the biography that doesn’t get her right
The great inquisitor of Splott
John Humphrys’ A Day Like Today touches lightly on his early career, which is a shame
Eternal resurrection
James Orr reviews Tom Holland’s Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
