From Ben Lerner to Simon Heffer: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang and Stay True by Hua Hsu.
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Also featuring Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang and Stay True by Hua Hsu.
ByA study of postwar British politics overstates the influence of its leading personalities.
ByThe songs he wrote with Elton John may be works of art. His bloated memoir is not.
ByThe tech billionaire built a world that he could rule – then allowed it to destroy him.
ByHer prose is bare, her characters are depressed and alienated. This literary trend has coagulated into parody.
ByAlso featuring The View From Down Here by Lucy Webster and So To Speak by Terrance Hayes.
ByA daughter’s homage to the mother who had to negotiate family and the urge to activism.
ByHow did the TV presenter’s terminally twee stories of death and Waitrose become the bestselling novels in the UK?
ByA new book identifies the army of amateurs, eccentrics and criminals who created the Oxford English Dictionary.
ByUnder Mary Lou McDonald the party is on the path to power – but can she keep its uneasy alliance…
ByJohn Gray’s latest book argues that the new Leviathans of liberalism have led to a war of all against all.
ByThe writer and activist on being mistaken for a conspiracy theorist.
ByAlso featuring Kenneth W Harl’s history of nomadic tribes and Redstone Press’s Seeing Things.
ByEmily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad reveals a bleak vision of the self-interest and savagery of humankind.
ByThe idea that culture can make us better people is rife across the political spectrum. But great art doesn’t exist…
ByIn The Wren, The Wren, the Irish author rigorously traces the line between love and trauma.
ByDebates about Britain’s colonial legacy are not just a product of Brexit or woke politics – empire has always been…
ByNick Compton had talent and a famous name, but the unforgiving sport both hid and exacerbated his insecurities.
ByBuilt on imperial amnesia and competing nationalisms, the EU has never been the beacon of inclusion it claims to be.
ByAlso featuring National Dish by Anya von Bremzen and Metropolitan by Andrew Martin.
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