How our lives depend on dirty work
We rely on some people doing unethical labour – fighting wars, killing animals, patrolling borders – and to absolve ourselves…
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HG Wells and the human animal
The visionary novelist sought to transform the world, but he could not escape its, or his own, dark irrationality.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Jan Morris, Siri Hustvedt, Mark Bould and Salley Vickers
Allegorizings by Morris, Mothers, Fathers and Others by Hustvedt, The Anthropocene Unconscious by Bould, and The Gardener by Vickers.
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Why the break-up of the Beatles still grips us
Even in 1969, Lennon and McCartney were still capable of making each other laugh and creatively turning each other on.
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What can Adam Phillips teach us?
The writer and therapist brings curiosity and delight to psychoanalysis – and, crucially, doubt.
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The triumphs and travails of Andrew Mitchell
The Conservative MP’s candid, humorous memoirs expose the vileness of high politics.
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How Britain was built on coal
The mining industry once defined the nation. Its absence still haunts today’s politics.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Ann Patchett, Olivia Yallop, Duncan Weldon and Phil Burton-Cartledge
These Precious Days by Patchett, Break the Internet by Yallop, Muddling Through by Weldon and Falling Down by Burton-Cartledge.
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