From Elizabeth Winkler to Claire Kilroy: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Cinderella Boys by Leo McKinstry and In Light-Years There’s No Hurry by Marjolijn van Heemstra.
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Caroline Calloway’s Scammer: a chaotic attempt to set the record straight
In her self-published memoir, the influencer veers between sharp wit and trite aphorisms, perceptive candour and petty insults.
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Britain’s race delusion
Tomiwa Owolade argues that American culture wars obscure black British identity – but are racial borders less fixed than he…
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Susan Sontag’s women problem
In the feminist thinker’s essays of the 1970s, members of her sex are portrayed as political pawns rather than human…
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What Cormac McCarthy knew
The American novelist understood the bleak truth that the world defies human understanding or control.
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Eat, Pray, Surrender
How Elizabeth Gilbert gave up on literature.
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Pathologies of a president
A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?
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From Brandon Taylor to Stuart Maconie: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Blue Machine by Helen Czerski and Is This OK? by Harriet Gibsone.
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