Jeanette Winterson’s book burning was embarrassingly over the top. But I’m glad she did it
Explaining her actions on Twitter, Winterson said she “absolutely hated the cosy little domestic blurbs on my new covers… So I…
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Mussolini and the rise of fascism
How did an obscure magazine editor become an idol, and then a scandal, and then reassert his authority and rule…
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The Good Girls investigates violence against women in Modi’s India
Sonia Faleiro’s story of the deaths of Padma Shakya and Lalli Shakya sheds light on broader issues in contemporary India.
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The narrow and shallow optimism of Ed Miliband’s Go Big
The unreal vision laid out in his new book explains the sad comedy of Miliband’s political career, and the rout…
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Reviewed in short: New books by Daniel Kahneman, Mitchell Dean, Nadifa Mohamed and Rory Cellan-Jones
Noise by Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein, The Last Man Takes LSD by Dean and Zamora, The Fortune Men by Mohamed and Always On by…
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Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory: a cabinet of curiosities
This is a collection of family objects and stories, a repository of cultural artefacts.
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Reconsidering violence against women
In her new book, Jacqueline Rose insists that to confront “crimes of the deepest thoughtlessness”, we must reckon with our…
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Deborah Levy and the domestic
In the final instalment in her of “living autobiography” trilogy, Levy asks: how does a woman construct a life after…
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