In Ukraine, Russian is now “the language of the enemy”
The linguistic migration away from Russian that has been happening for decades has a new urgency in the wake of…
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What Antony Beevor gets wrong about Russia
The historian’s new book Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 fails to understand that brutality is powered by ideas.
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Reviewed in Short: New books by Rupal Patel and Jack Meaning, Melvyn Bragg, Laura Bates and Paddy Crewe
Can’t We Just Print More Money? by Patel and Meaning, Back in the Day by Bragg, Fix the System, Not…
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Rebecca Smith: “For children, losing their hair is very frightening”
The author reflects on writing about childhood cancer in her new book SuperDaisy.
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The secret world of Mick Herron
How the author of Slow Horses and Bad Actors became the foremost living spy novelist in the English language.
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Reflections of the elusive Jean Rhys
The novelist wrote four dark, slyly autobiographical novels – then vanished for 25 years. A new biography hopes to separate…
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Jonathan Bate: “To me, Shakespeare is the great enabler”
How the acclaimed critic made his journey to popular writing, finds solace in Shakespeare, and took revenge on Cambridge.
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Desperate Remedies: A new work charts the cruel and often gruesome history of mental health treatments
The sociologist Andrew Scull acknowledges that contemporary psychiatry is more rigorous – but is it more effective?
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