Lisa Appignanesi’s brave memoir explores what happens when grief gives way to anger
“I should have felt sorrow and pity,” Appignanesi writes. Instead, she felt rage.
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Bringing up Winnie: Winston Churchill’s revealing letters to his mother
It was a relationship that, as Churchill once remarked, was more like brother and sister than mother and son.
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Lily Allen’s memoir is uniquely candid about the dark side of fame
Allen details countless horrors, including a stalker entering her bedroom at night, waking up as a record industry executive attempted…
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Peter Hitchens’s Eurosceptic take on the Second World War is riddled with errors and bizarre theories
The Mail on Sunday columnist, relying on a handful of eccentric studies, argues that September 1939 was the wrong moment…
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Geoff Dyer’s book about the war film Where Eagles Dare is about much more than just one movie
Dyer has always been a writer for whom talking about something properly and honestly means talking about a lot of…
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The 2018 Man Booker shortlist in reviews
Our reviews of the six books shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
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The lure of getting lost: why mazes draw us in
Mazes are the epitome of a designed environment, of complexity, and yet they seem to emerge from somewhere dark and…
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How Vietnam was America’s avoidable war
We call the Vietnam War a tragedy. But it wasn’t a matter of fate: it was a choice.
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