Books
Super Thursday
The busiest day of the publishing calendar offers hope for some, but ruin for many
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
Melancholy of obsolete futures
Alexander Adams on Soviet Brutalism and where to read about it
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
All Booked Up
Is there a cure for bibliomania?
The demise of the second-hand bookshop
Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller
Footnoting the Belfast Agreement’s invisible annex
Owen Polley reviews Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane
How I discovered secondhand books
A home with books is a launching pad for a life well lived, says Daniel Johnson
How to cheat the bestseller list
Buying your way into the book charts is more widespread than you might think