How Anne Frank’s collected works reveal the girl behind the legend
The diarist has been mythologised as a brave witness to evil, but it’s as an ordinary teenager growing into maturity that…
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Kate Clanchy’s Some Kids I Taught: a refreshing corrective to teaching stereotypes
As teaching is so often discussed in terms of drudgery, disenchantment and disciplinary helplessness, Clanchy’s book is a welcome remedial.…
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James Ellroy’s monuments to bigoted men
Ellroy is a crime writing great – but has he got too close to the ugly racism of his characters?…
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The rise of millennial socialism
Across the world, young activists are turning to old ideas. Why?
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Dan Gretton’s I You We Them: the mass murderers who killed from behind a desk
As the rather elaborate title might indicate, I You We Them is a complex and exceptional book. It also strikes me as…
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Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee humanises a global crisis
The phrase “refugee crisis” evokes a standard set of images. Water-logged dinghies. Flimsy life-jackets. Queues of desperate people squinting in…
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David Blanchflower’s Not Working is an excellent critique of mainstream economics – but lacks solutions
Since the financial crisis of 2008, employment in the US and the UK has reached record highs – yet British workers…
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Colum McCann’s Thirteen Ways of Looking seeks mental depth cameras can’t see
This new short story collection approaches the subject of trauma from a number of angles.
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