Books

The poet and the patrician

Stephen Parkinson reviews The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F Buckley Jr, and the debate over race in America, by Nicholas Buccola

War-war not jaw-jaw

Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming

Why populism is popular

Richard Reinsch reviews The New Class War By Michael Lind

The Steiner of nether edge

Michael Henderson reviews A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher and Here We Are by Graham Swift

Know your Catalan onions

Gerald Frost reviews Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity by Venetia Johannes

There’s no need to shout

Patrick West reviews You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy

A plague of words

Who will write the Great Novel of the Coronavirus?

The implied fascist

Roland Elliott Brown reviews How to be a Fascist by Michela Murgia

True Feminism has Never Been Tried, Comrade

Alexander Adams reviews Women Can’t Paint by Helen Gørrill

Eat more meat!

Jamie Blackett discovers the more meat the better in Charlie Spedding’s book: Stop Feeding Us Lies