Playing it over and over again: how Casablanca was made
The story behind the movie that defines the movies is one of immigrants, timing and a “son of a bitch”…
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Mark Cocker’s Our Place makes clear that Britain’s countryside is in real trouble
“What countryside?” a friend of Cocker’s pointedly asks.
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Jacqueline Rose’s book offers a clear-sighted analysis of what it means to be a mother
The womb is a battlefield. Never underestimate the amount of sadism pregnant women can evoke, warns Rose.
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Set between Sheffield and Bangladesh, The Friendly Ones is frequently disorientating
Philip Hensher’s 12th work of fiction is a synthesis of material, traditions and styles.
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From Augustus to FDR, why a nimble mind is the key to successful leadership
In On Grand Strategy, historian John Lewis Gaddis offers a timely historical overview of the constituents of leadership from the classical…
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Prince of petulance: Tom Bowers uncovers the right royal foibles of the heir to the throne
The problem with Rebel Prince is that the author’s hatred of Prince Charles renders every titbit credibility lite.
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Girls’ schools and Gothic: inside the dark and dreamlike world of Swiss writer Fleur Jaeggy
Jaeggy writes powerfully of communities of adolescent girls: stagnant, hothouse worlds of spying and crushes.
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Kintu: a Ugandan novel of family and the long reach of history
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s ambitious new novel has notes of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
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