Lena Dunham, art monster
Her memoir Famesick shows the “profoundly corrosive” effect of living through one’s work
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Is it still cool to be Jay McInerney?
The novelist was once a prince of New York’s literary scene. Today, he chronicles wine instead of the modern city
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The fabrications of Albert Speer
The Nazi architect wrote his own self-exculpatory story – but what about his crimes?
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Private equity’s hostile takeover of Britain
Hettie O’Brien’s The Asset Class reveals how a morally dubious business financing model swallowed the public sector
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Franz Kafka’s ten apostles
The Mitteleuropean writer owes much of his fame to the gifted translators who took his words out of German and…
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An English life in Vladimir Putin’s twilight zone
Foreign correspondent Marc Bennetts spent 25 years living in Russia. What did he witness during its descent into authoritarianism?
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“How the World Declared War on America”
In the wilderness of America, JG Ballard foresaw the gangster imperialism of Donald Trump
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Patrick Radden Keefe’s obituary for Britain
In London Falling, the American journalist presents the capital as a dying, amoral city
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