The last days of Percy Bysshe Shelley
It was 200 years ago that Shelley drowned, aged 29 – but his poems of tyranny and freedom speak to our…
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Reviewed in short: New books from Bella Lack, Helen Benedict and Eyad Awwadawnan, Simone de Beauvoir and Simon Jenkins
The Children of the Anthropocene by Lack, Map of Hope and Sorrow by Benedict and Awwadawnan, The Inseparables by de…
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How animal senses reveal hidden worlds
Ed Yong's fascinating new book on the complex behaviours of creatures uncovers a universe of unfathomable beauty.
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The purpose of sex
Lillian Fishman’s bold and searching debut novel, Acts of Service, questions the meaning of desire and introduces a major new…
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The banality of Vladimir Putin
A new biography of the Russian president details the extraordinary rise of an unremarkable man who learned how to exercise…
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Margo Jefferson: “We were always performing desirable blackness”
The critic and memoirist on growing up in 1960s Chicago, Donald Trump’s “constant oversight”, and her fascination with minstrel shows.
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How I learned to ditch Amazon and fall in love with books again
After years of mindlessly buying the books I thought I should read, my local bookshop helped me to discover my…
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How TS Eliot found happiness
Withdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s second…
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