Crime Fiction
Murders for December
A cornucopia of killings for the Christmas season
Dark obsessions of the Demon Dog
Love Me Fierce in Danger reads as a book for fans, inured to the World of Ellroy
Murders for March
A sinister start to the spring
The salvation of crime fiction
In praise of delectably dark escapism
Murders for September
Past and future killings
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written
Tales of helping and helplessness
This selection of new fiction is marked by both novelty and tradition
Murders for late December
Not all is grim and gloom in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series
Murders for late November
From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not
Murders for late October
Professor Jeremy Black rounds up the best autumnal reads that are successful in grounding a sense of place
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
