Trump’s inability to articulate any substantive thought renders a respected journalist’s new book unreadable

Douglas Murray refuses to mourn the death of the gay novel — a genre that was once ghettoised has joined the mainstream

A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost

An erudite call to return to a more sceptical and prudential kind of politics

Firmin DeBrabander’s philosophical musings are the checklist of a left-wing, “progressive” academic

In his new book, Gerald Seib asks whether the turn towards nationalism and populism in the US is permanent

If Martin Amis isn’t entertaining you on every page, then what’s the point of him?

Lady Swire’s new memoir dishes the dirt on the Cameronian Government

A new book celebrates 125 years of rugby league but shines a light on a world that the sport has left behind

Practically all the artists in the book are traumatised in one way or another, and all experienced war