From Helen Rappaport to Simon Barnes: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King by Christopher de Bellaigue and Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp.
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The fight for wages for housework
In the Seventies, one feminist movement campaigned to make domestic labour both visible and recompensed.
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Dante’s divine autofiction
How the Italian poet’s search for self-knowledge changed the course of literature.
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The thwarted Marxist of Balliol
Christopher Hill was much better at analysing the revolution than he was at fomenting one.
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The two deaths of Brianna Ghey
In her powerful memoir Under A Pink Sky, Esther Ghey writes her daughter was being killed by social media long…
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From Gabriel Weston to Richard Overy: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring I Don’t Like Your Tie by Marc Moss-Jones and Kevin Core and The Naked Eye by Yoko Tawada.
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Curtis Sittenfeld’s ordinary lives
The stories in her zeitgeisty collection Show Don’t Tell are dated by their cultural references, but their astute observations are…
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Art and the ruins of the left
Can painting alter the course of our politics?
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