Books

Adrienne Miller’s In the Land of Men: a literary memoir of Manhattan magazine publishing

Stories of an “improbable gatekeeper”: a young female editor in an age of great male narcissists.

26 October 1962: Prompted by Michael Foot’s biography of Aneurin Bevan, John Freeman gathers his thoughts about the father of…

The rules of attraction

Two surveys of sex and seduction show that not much has changed.

The Decameron – the 14th-century Italian book that shows us how to survive coronavirus

Giovanni Boccaccio’s work taught citizens how to maintain mental wellbeing in times of epidemics and isolation.

Kraftwerk’s music for a Europe without end

Born out of Germany’s industrial heartland, Kraftwerk’s epic electronic pop did not just soundtrack a decade: it created a global…

Colum McCann’s Apeirogon: an ambitious work of “documentary fiction”

This novel based in fact spans the divide of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In praise of history’s difficult women

The story of the fight for gender quality is littered with unlikeable feminists. But do we need to like them…