Books

The fables and failures of Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis has become famous for mining his troubled family for material. Is he still as candid as before?

Strangers in our midst

Colin Grant once more brings us the voices of the British migrant experience too often ignored

What George Cottrell knows about money laundering

Nigel Farage’s friend does him no favours

America’s original biggest loser

The abuse suffered 250 years ago by Thomas Hutchinson for upholding the law has echoes in US governance today

The avengers of the Odyssey

Homer’s audience delighted in violence and bloodshed. Can modern readers stomach his story?

October 1978: Two books on, respectively, Hemingway and Fitzgerald reveal how different the heroes of American literature were

The downfall of the Oxbridge don

British academic life was not prepared for the shocks of student protests and Thatcherism