Matt Stoller’s Goliath: the rise of big tech
A new book explores how big tech threatens democracy.
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Attlee and Churchill: leaders united through war
Winston Churchill said Clement Attlee was a modest man who had much to be modest about. But they worked together…
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Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women: a bold and timely portrait of female sexual desire
Lisa Taddeo’s debut Three Women is an eight-year study of a subject that was thought not to exist in any…
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Modern poetry’s sentimentality problem
Many years ago I found myself unable to avoid talking, on a semi-regular basis for a period of 48 months,…
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Max Porter’s Lanny is a story of our fraught relationship to the countryside
A missing child (the eponymous Lanny); a traumatised village; and a strange, chorus-like narration. Max Porter’s Lanny has rather a…
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Lydia Davis’s Essays: a masterful, lucid collection
“Revising One Sentence” is the title of one of the essays in Lydia Davis’s masterful, lucid collection. No single piece…
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How the Economist shaped the liberal mind
Since its founding in 1843 the Economist has radiated an aura of omniscience. But its days of playing God may…
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Jonathan Coe’s Middle England: a delightful skewering of British nostalgia
There is a delicious irony in Coe taking aim at the past. The meta-joke of his fiction is that it…
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