The problem with smart thinking
We can’t all be philosophers, but a whole genre of bad books will try to make you one.
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Has Caitlin Moran ever met a man?
Her new book What About Men? promises an anatomy of the male condition – but instead provides flagrant stereotypes and…
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From Leïla Slimani to Laura Cumming: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Penance by Eliza Clark and White Hot by Matt Roller and Tim Wigmore.
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Bruce Springsteen and the spectre of stardom
In 1981, the singer sensed his future fame – and retreated. Nebraska, his darkest and most personal album, was the…
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How sport explains Thatcher’s Britain
The commerce, scandal and violence of sport in the 1980s was a reflection of a ruthlessly individualist society.
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Making a murderer
Mark O’Connell’s portrait of a notorious Irish killer becomes a study of the desire to turn reality into fiction.
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Polly Toynbee and the price of privilege
The left-wing journalist’s memoir is an irresistible, Evelyn Waugh-like tale of aristocratic anarchy and class guilt.
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Trapped in the generation gap
Jean Twenge’s new study suggests that the young are the losers in a society transformed by technology.
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