Novels
Satire needs to find new targets
There are still plenty of institutions worth mocking
Brought to Book: James Marriott
Larman on the Editor hounded off Twitter for saying male novelists are being excluded
Criminally good writing
Jeremy Black reviews The Man Who Didn’t Fly, by Margot Bennett
Corto Maltese – graphic novels on a higher plane
The faithful translation of Hugo Pratt’s graphic novels introduces his hero to the wider audience he deserves
British Crime Classics
Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre
The man behind the Monster
Bernd Fischer and the need for precision
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited
Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical
The Ruling Passion
Should former prime ministers gently fade away?
The BLM takeover of Whitehall
Why don’t ministers care about the politics of their civil servants?
The making of Donald Trump
In his new book, Gerald Seib asks whether the turn towards nationalism and populism in the US is permanent
Teens on screen
The coming of age genre is experiencing a renaissance
The unremarkable truth about America’s Covid response
The US handling of Covid-19 does not make it a ‘failed state’
Boris beware: Nigel’s making plans for you
Farage will soon return from his political grave to ensure Brexit gets done
It’ll be Gover by Christmas
Being PM isn’t as easy as Boris looked forward to it being
Why observe the laws the EU won’t?
Brussels has a very distinctive attitude towards its sacred legal order