Volodymyr Zelensky behind the mask
Serhii Rudenko’s biography is a portrait of a wartime hero whose troubled past may return to haunt him.
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No, Philip Larkin is not being “cancelled” by schools
The culture war against teachers and academics is manufactured by right-wing newspapers and rent-a-quote reactionaries.
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Remaking the Anthropocene
Why our need for utopian thinking old and new, from Thomas More to Kim Stanley Robinson, has never been greater.
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How the empire degraded Britain
Three new histories reveal the corrosive effects of colonialism and slavery on today’s British politics.
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Utopia in the age of climate crisis
Half-Earth Socialism proposes democratic planning to navigate environmental catastrophe, but leaves vital questions unanswered.
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From aardvark to woke: inside the Oxford English Dictionary
The OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago.
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The Death of Consensus: the recurring nightmares of British politics
From strikes to Brexit, a new book by the BBC producer Phil Tinline explores how the UK has been shaped…
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Reviewed in short: New books from Victor Sebestyen, Susan Jonusas, Howard Jacobson and Keiran Goddard
Budapest by Sebestyen, Hell’s Half Acre by Jonusas, Mother’s Boy by Jacobson and Hourglass by Goddard.
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