Books

A troubled behemoth

John Bowers QC reviews Facebook: The Inside Story, by Steven Levy

Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed

Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic

White Supremacists: Anti-racists need you!

Ewa Dymek & Mateusz Dymek review Me and White Supremacy, by Layla Saad

The ecstasy and the agony

Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife

Pounding to nothing

Patrick Porter reviews The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton

A guide to the plangent lineaments of love

Matthew Adams reviews The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams

Brideshead Revisited at 75

In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes

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