Book Review
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people
Raunchy tale of pedigree chums
The spouse of a longstanding MP has an opportunity to offer a particular perspective
Inside the room where it happens
John Bolton’s account of his time in the Trump administration gives a damning report of the president’s ignorance
Reflections of a scientific humanist
Michael Shermer’s new book is a collection of skilful elucidations of academic ideas
Flirting with damnation
As Greene explained to his wife when their marriage ended, what made him a bad husband was precisely what made him a good writer
American Xanadu: an appreciative history of Mar-a-Lago
Les Standiford’s book situates Mar-a-Lago’s surreal qualities in the larger history of Palm Beach
Harrumphing and hot air
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s polemic against coronavirus lockdowns is “a stale little bonbon”
Why free market think tanks are neither evil nor geniuses
Kurt Andersen’s ‘Evil Geniuses’ is a one-sided guide to the imminent future
The woke book of Brexit
Save yourself from ‘Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire’ by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid