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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There will be blood
Motherhood is the most profound metamorphosis most women will go through. Why is this process so overlooked?
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The family doctor knows best
A sweeping history of the NHS and one GP’s inside account of a long career on the front line.
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The high plain style of Cormac McCarthy
The late American novelist wrote with a strange and streamlined grandeur, and sounded like nobody else.
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