James Ellroy’s monuments to bigoted men
Ellroy is a crime writing great – but has he got too close to the ugly racism of his characters?…
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The rise of millennial socialism
Across the world, young activists are turning to old ideas. Why?
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Britannia Unchained: the free-market book that defines Boris Johnson’s cabinet
The libertarian tract’s policies and co-authors – Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, Liz Truss – are at the heart of the…
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C S Lewis’s story has already been told: why we don’t need a new Narnia book
This is a story about something that happened at the turn of the present century. In those days, Harry Potter…
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Brooke Magnanti’s The Sex Myth review: How Belle de Jour got her figures wrong
Brooke Magnanti's skewering of others' bad stats is excellent. It's a shame she isn't blameless herself.
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Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond is earthy and dark – and very hard to write about
Like Lydia Davis, Bennett uses a solitary, highly educated female narrator who contemplates chores with a literary-linguistic cast of mind.
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Dan Gretton’s I You We Them: the mass murderers who killed from behind a desk
As the rather elaborate title might indicate, I You We Them is a complex and exceptional book. It also strikes me as…
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Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee humanises a global crisis
The phrase “refugee crisis” evokes a standard set of images. Water-logged dinghies. Flimsy life-jackets. Queues of desperate people squinting in…
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