How Niall Ferguson’s Doom fails to make sense of the Covid crisis
The historian’s reading of the pandemic is undermined by theoretical jargon, incoherence and a self-consciously provocative right-wing position.
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Reviewed in Short: New books by Jenn Shapland, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, Simon Armitage and Jon McGregor
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Shapland, The Passenger by Boschwitz, A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures by Armitage and Lean Fall Stand by McGregor.
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The vegetarian in the abattoir
Henry Mance uncovers the inconvenient truths about our treatment of animals.
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The double life of DH Lawrence
The novelist was a megalomaniac fuelled by fantasies of manhood – but his imaginative genius speaks to us still.
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Ireland’s forever wars
A new book chronicles the killings that shaped a nation.
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Ireland’s forever wars
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Len Deighton and the mundanity of spies
I was sent to prevent the Bolshevik Revolution and to keep Russia in the war,” wrote Somerset Maugham in the…
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Is it time to end our Mitford obsession?
As Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love appears on BBC One, two writers consider the legacy of the original novel…
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