This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book

This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache

What masterpieces hide on tired and musty shelves?

Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed

This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir

The dogmatic insistence that unionists are being pushed towards a united Ireland

Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees

d’Ancona is guilty of the same kind of arrogance and bad faith he identifies in other liberals

Is Europe losing its interesting edges as temperatures climb year by year?

Round-up: what do these books tell us about literary culture in 2021?