Why Teju Cole proves the 21st-century essay is in fine fettle
Cole's collected essays, Known and Stranger Things, combines good writing with emotion and intellect.
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The ambiguous heroism of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther
Coates draws on a rich, modern African-American mythology to turn T’Challa into the Black Panther: Marvel’s African superhero.
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Fight the power
K Biswas learns a new lexicon of protest with Sarah Jaffe’s Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt.
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Man in a box
James Medd luxuriates in Clive James’s TV criticism.
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The Heavenly Table is daft, gruesome, offensive – and loads of fun to read
The fictional world of Donald Ray Pollock’s new novel is compellingly brutal. At times, though, it feels as if it could…
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Twice bottled grief: the defiant life of Tony Garnett
Garnett’s potent memoir The Day the Music Died shows a life defined by the refusal of even the most ordinary levels…
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Walking while female: how Flâneuse encourages its reader to take to the streets
Lauren Elkin's study of women walkers shows how putting one foot in front of the other can be a radical…
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The tolerant philosopher: why Pierre Bayle is the forgotten figure of the Enlightenment
Voltaire said he was the greatest reasoner who ever set pen to paper. But is there a twist to Bayle's…
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