Books
Antiquarian enterprises
The highs and lows of antiquarian bookselling
True Feminism has Never Been Tried, Comrade
Alexander Adams reviews Women Can’t Paint by Helen Gørrill
Eat more meat!
Jamie Blackett discovers the more meat the better in Charlie Spedding’s book: Stop Feeding Us Lies
When the hype becomes the story
As Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light is released this week, Alexander Larman examines the over-excitement of high-profile releases
West British landscapes
Andrew McKinley reviews Robert Lynch’s ‘The Partition of Ireland 1918-1925’
American psychos
Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Adventures in La-La Land
Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose
Flying tonight
Patrick Galbraith finds a little bit of Heaven in Hull
More plausible than real life
John Preston reviews Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen
Paris on lockdown: ‘Eccentric’ running and a chastened president
Macron admits mistakes as quarantine continues in France
UBI is a pipe dream that would bankrupt the nation
Universal Basic Income would wreck the economy
Who holds the power?
Literary reputations are made and broken by a self-appointed clique of bien pensant liberal intellectuals
A puritan but not a fanatic
Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay