James Meek’s broken Britain
The LRB essayist’s new novel draws from his reporting on a dysfunctional nation
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The violence at the heart of the CCP
Frank Dikötter charts the rise of Chinese communism through its brutality. But does he undervalue the role of ideas?
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Uncovering Russia’s dark soul
The country’s vast woods have been overlooked in our understanding of its violent history
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Life and fate in Kolkata
In a novel set in a dystopian Bengal, scarcity and climate exile have stripped the characters of their decency –…
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Dominic Sandbrook on history, the liberal elite and the reading crisis
Britain’s best-known historian found new audiences for the stories of the past. Can he now get them to read novels?
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The writer who fought the Mafia
Crime writer Leonardo Sciascia launched a political career to take on the Mafia and try to heal the malignant forces…
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The depravity of Jeffrey Epstein’s reading list
The Epstein emails are crawling with Humbert Humberts
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Dirty realism goes supernatural
The writer’s new novel Vigil suffers from its ambition
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