Book Review
Mapping the Blob
The Long March draws together evidence that we half knew but shied away from
A forgotten poet of the people
The legacy of a left behind war poet
All dressed up and raring to go
A brilliant, ambitious volume of art history — but physically difficult to read
Remembering The Merchant of Prato
A vivid picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance
The Spy, the Scholar and the British Academy
David Cannadine’s thoughtful commentary of the Anthony Blunt affair utilises previously unpublished sources
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
Melancholy of obsolete futures
Alexander Adams on Soviet Brutalism and where to read about it
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
Footnoting the Belfast Agreement’s invisible annex
Owen Polley reviews Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
