Book Review
“I am a total act” (but a second act?)
John Bowers reveiws A Very Stable Genius, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
Of men and birds
John Self reviews Enter The Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
Criminal insanity
Nigel Biggar reviews Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, by John Lloyd
Mass-goer who glorified mass production
Christopher Bray reviews Warhol by Blake Gopnik
Unpacking the shoeboxes of history
Robert Hutton reviews House of Glass by Hadley Freeman and Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell
The big state heir to Blair
James Kirkup reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
Tarnished golden land
Graham Stewart reviews The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
It’s good to talk
Louise Perry reviews How to Have Impossible Conversations by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
PAYE makes the world go round
Jamie Blackett reviews Daylight Robbery by Dominic Frisby
Wandsworth’s white-collar clubmen
Alexander Larman reviews A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins
The politics of the plague
Boris Johnson may already have waited fatally long
A philosopher of deeds
Roger Scruton was a doer as well as a thinker
We’re all in the big numbers now
Adding up the damage Britain’s Covid-19 policies have caused
An appreciation of the late John Simon
Andrew Cusack remembers the apotheosis of criticism
What to watch for on election night
Lewis Baston’s guide to watching the election results intelligently
Picturing Colonial Africa
Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary