Books

Saved for posterity

John Bowers reviews Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries, by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann

Return of the Never Trumpers

If the Trump experiment ends in failure, where will it leave those conservatives who told you so?

Decline of the English novel

Bereft of God and middle class values, authors are left with identity politics

Days in the life of the Fab Four

Joseph Connolly reviews One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, by Craig Brown

Our friends in court

John Bowers reviews “Enemies of the People?” by Joshua Rozenberg

The wrong sort of difficult

Natascha Engel reviews Difficult Women, by Helen Lewis

The man who exposed the watchers

David J. Garrow reviews Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State, by Barton Gellman

Britain’s little Hitlers

Richard Griffiths reviews Failed Führers, by Graham Macklin

Too much of a maverick

Andrew Roberts reviews Haldane, by John Campbell

Matters of life and death

John Self reviews Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams, and The End of Me by Alfred Hayes