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American Xanadu: an appreciative history of Mar-a-Lago

Les Standiford’s book situates Mar-a-Lago’s surreal qualities in the larger history of Palm Beach

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Harrumphing and hot air

Bernard-Henri Lévy’s polemic against coronavirus lockdowns is “a stale little bonbon”

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Why free market think tanks are neither evil nor geniuses

Kurt Andersen’s ‘Evil Geniuses’ is a one-sided guide to the imminent future

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The woke book of Brexit

Save yourself from ‘Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire’ by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson

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In defence of knowledge

Richard Ovenden’s new book is a passionate defence of the sanctity of knowledge expressed through literature

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Dinner at Brasenose? Unmasking the Secret Barrister

The Secret Barrister’s new book tears apart fake news and the notion of compensation culture

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Et tu? The grim fate of the usual suspects

Peter Stothard’s depiction of the demise of Caesar emphasises the humanity of the emperor’s killer

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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

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The unlikely miracle of Trump’s presidency

Trump’s inability to articulate any substantive thought renders a respected journalist’s new book unreadable

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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

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