Books

From André Aciman to Vanessa Kisuule: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Four Points of the Compass by Jerry Brotton and The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer.

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An elite by inheritance still holds sway but it has been joined by an elite of grafters.

By Nicholas Harris

The New Zealand author, born 100 years ago, was both tormented and inspired by her experience of mental illness.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Jeremy Clarke’s final Spectator columns, written after his cancer diagnosis, are witty, well balanced and devoid of self-pity.

By David Sexton

Also featuring Sing Like Fish by Amorina Kingdon and Tracks on the Ocean by Sara Caputo.

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey and George Monaghan

The writer on Keir Starmer, Labour’s “grim” inheritance and his desire to reinvent the past.

By Pippa Bailey

New technologies cannot replace the pleasure and self-expression of living.

By Ed Smith

Is child-rearing political or deeply personal? Helen Charman’s new history reckons with the tension between mother and state.

By Megan Gibson