The 2019 Booker shortlist in reviews
Read our verdict on the six books shortlisted for this year’s prize.
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Life beyond Brexit
A forthright new book by the former Tory minister William Waldegrave argues that Britain needs to accept home truths about…
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The love affair at the centre of Europe’s cultural explosion
The romantically entwined trio who helped spread cosmopolitan culture from Moscow to London.
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David Cameron’s downfall
Charming, talented and disarmingly reasonable, Cameron kept on winning – until he lost everything.
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How movies made Reagan’s America
The Hollywood films of the Eighties paint a portrait of a schizophrenic, semi-free society.
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Michel Houellebecq’s new novel Serotonin is tiresome, torpid and dated
This is a work full of pills, porn and pseudo-nuance – almost-but-not-quite clever.
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Lucy Ellmann’s 1000-page novel Ducks, Newburyport is funny and unapologetically difficult
Ducks, Newburyport is asking us to imagine what a total, unboundaried empathy with another person could feel like.
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Patti Smith: “I’m an American artist and I feel guilty about everything”
The godmother of punk on talking to Dylan, Trump and a snapping turtle.
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