In search of a language of loss
Is there a correct way to mourn? When my mother died, I scoured the literature of grief for answers
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Kick the Latch is a spare and powerful account of a life with horses
Kathryn Scanlan’s novel, based on interviews with an American horse trainer, is a precise and unromantic portrait of the racetrack…
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Prince Harry’s Spare breaks UK non-fiction book sales records
The memoir appears to have beaten growing “Harry fatigue”.
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How Nan Shepherd shaped modern nature writing
Snubbed by its first readers, her visionary book The Living Mountain went on to inspire a new literature of landscape.
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What Norman Mailer can teach us
It is right to condemn the writer’s violent chauvinism – but a literature that has lost the power to challenge is…
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From Edward Stourton to the Wife of Bath: new titles reviewed in short
Also featuring Bad Bridget by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick and Sold Out by James Rickards.
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The business-lounge intellectual
With his new book, the FT’s Martin Wolf wants to rescue capitalism. But is it worth saving?
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From Tom Crewe to Caro Giles: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt and a study of conducting by Alice Farnham.
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