Books

Through history, Mermaids have been treated as more real than legendary, even by those who have had a reputation to uphold

Lisa Hilton finds it hard to imagine that this guide will be of actual use to anyone at all

Loneliness is not just a side-effect of Coronavirus: it’s been here for a while

This is perhaps the only book I have yet read about Amin which gives anything like an accurate assessment of who he was

What we have is pure storytelling delight, a page-turner that works forwards and backwards as the reader fills in the gaps

The Upswing by Robert Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett

Surely it would be better for economies if the markets were to run on a more even keel?

Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people

As Greene explained to his wife when their marriage ended, what made him a bad husband was precisely what made him a good writer

Wagner’s sexual ambiguity spoke to Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Thomas Mann, says Norman Lebrecht