The lost boys of North London
Leo Robson’s family saga, set during the 2012 Olympics, is both a comedy and a study of grief.
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From Isabel Allende to Tim Wigmore: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Cooking in the Wrong Century by Teresa Präauer and The Lost Orchid by Sarah Bilston.
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Edward St Aubyn’s comedy of horrors
The Patrick Melrose novels and his other works are clearly by the same writer – but produce wildly different results.
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Rafael Nadal: the king of Paris
No player has dominated one Grand Slam as Nadal did the red clay of Roland Garros.
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Curzio Malaparte, the Proust of violence
The Italian writer was drawn to fascism – but became an unsparing chronicler of the carnage of war.
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Jane Gardam’s dispatches from the past
The late British writer produced novels haunted by uprootings, death, and the twilight of the British Empire.
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Faith is a half-formed thing
A new generation is turning away from established churches in search of a different way to believe
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Andrea Dworkin’s dispatches from the sex wars
In her 1981 treatise, Dworkin called porn “the orchestrated destruction of women’s bodies and souls”. Forty years later, has sex-positive…
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