The Adulterants: a wickedly funny millennial Bildungsroman from Submarine’s Joe Dunthorne
An insightful portrait of the peculiarities of modern masculinity.
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The Wife’s Tale: Aida Edemariam’s vivid portrait of her 95-year-old Ethiopian grandmother
To read The Wife’s Tale is not just to hear about times past and far away, but to be transported…
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The Beautiful Cure: The lethal complexity of our immune systems
How immunology – the study of the immune system – went from a marginal area of clinical medicine to a…
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JK Rowling created an army of liberals – now they are turning against her
“I just think she wrote many beautiful things in Harry Potter, but she doesn’t live up to them in real life.”
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Finding horror and humour in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad
Hadi, a junk dealer, alcoholic and habitual liar, starts collecting body parts from explosion sites, elaborately stitching them together into a…
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Why Trump fans are flocking to read a psychology professor’s self-help book
Unlike best seller The Game, Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life offers self-help that might actually be helpful.
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Why I prefer diaries to memoirs
Bernard Donoughue’s diaries will endure when most of the memoirs of the period are forgotten.
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Fiona Sampson’s search for Mary Shelley refuses the typical distance of a biography
This year marks the bicentenary of Shelley’s Frankenstein, a first novel that has become both a modern myth.
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