Kathleen Stock’s new book is exactly the kind of forensic, generous intervention the ongoing trans debate sorely needs

From psychological character studies to witty and fast-paced detective novels, Jeremy Black rounds up the best crime fiction for late Spring

With Labour again promising to talk in a language that the voters can understand, a new book asks whether the party’s historical myths are the problem

Islam outside the West preserves much of its traditional character, but Islam within the West is in danger of petrifying

Nick Cohen reveals how this book, along with hundreds of political writers like him, ducks the reality of working class life

This book is so colourful and well told that it should interest even those who find the game of Cricket dull

Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release

Anne Sebba’s book on Ethel Rosenberg is a towering memorial

Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty

How the Anglophile Kaiser Wilhelm went to war with Britain