Counting the ways: what Virgin and Other Stories teaches us about want
April Ayers Lawson’s debut collection is both forensic and mysterious.
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What can a new book of Holocaust testimony tell us about the Third Reich?
Laurence Rees has probably interviewed more people who lived through the Holocaust than anybody else.
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Why did Britain’s first road atlas take you to Aberystwyth?
Alan Ereira’s new The Nine Lives of John Ogilby tells the story of a remarkable book – and its remarkable creator.
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Sex, cycling and socialism: the revolutionary women that history forgot
Part political chronicle, part emotional narrative, Sheila Rowbotham’s Rebel Crossings brings hidden stories into detailed, sympathetic view.
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The Worst Witch is back – and it’s as subtly feminist as ever
The Worst Witch is, essentially, a story aimed at bookish young women that deals with imposter syndrome.
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The best of rivals: how four friendships changed the course of art history
Manet and Degas, Matisse and Picasso – The Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee reminds us that who we meet can…
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From sex to friendship, are millennials’ lives ruled by narcissism?
New books Future Sex and The Selfishness of Others explore what it means to live in our current moment.
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“Close to tears, he left at the intermission”: how Stanley Kubrick upset Arthur C Clarke
The clash of wills behind 2001: a Space Odyssey reminds me that scientific education, not mystery, was always closest to my…
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