Book Review
“I am a total act” (but a second act?)
John Bowers reviews 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
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
