Books
British Crime Classics
Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre
Of mice and writing advice
Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
Triumph of the horrible game
Michael Henderson reviews The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt
Riotous tale of a vivid life, superbly lived
Alexander Larman reviews Lady in Waiting: My extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown, by Anne Glenconner
Can hurt feelings trump free speech?
Douglas Murray reviews What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth and Equality on Campus by Ulrich Baer
Speaking power to truth
Patrick Porter reviews The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Feminism for the few
Ella Whelan reviews Women vs Capitalism by Vicky Pryce
Turkey’s migrant war with Greece
Greece puts up a wall as Turkey besieges Europe with refugees
Taking the register
The trials and tribulations of prep-school parenting
Who’s afraid of Michael Bloomberg?
So far, the biggest loser of the Democratic primary has been the Democratic party
Obama’s airbrushed dreams
Original typscript reveals an insecure man racked by self-doubt
Moronic inferno
An anonymous academic on campus follies
American psychos
Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson