The Last Wolf: Robert Winder’s book examines the elusive concept of Englishness
If English national character is so hard to pin down, could this mean there is no such thing any more?
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Stamped from the Beginning charts the uncomfortable history of American racism
Ibram X Kendi offers an un-yielding narrative of racist ideas, violence and harm – but also resistance.
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The Power and the Story: fact, fabrication and the shaping of the modern media
Author John Lloyd is amazed at how Donald Trump has “set about trashing” the practice of journalism.
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A Bold and Dangerous Family: the Italian brothers who resisted Mussolini
Caroline Moorehead’s absorbing biography tells the tale of Nello and Carlo Rosselli.
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The City Always Wins: a poetic, intimate debut set in Cairo during the Arab Spring
The novel’s author Omar Robert Hamilton has activism in his blood.
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To the Back of Beyond destabilises everything in the most stable of lives
Peter Stamm’s haunting new novel is simple, yet irreducible and mysterious.
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“It’s like groundhog day“: smaller booksellers rail against Amazon’s latest low tax bill
While the online giant’s revenues soar, bricks-and-mortar stores fight on.
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From Finding Neverland to Goodbye Christopher Robin: how we reached peak Sentimental Children’s Author Biopic
Where did this bizarre genre come from? And why does it endure?
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