Angels and minotaurs: the best children’s books for spring
Insects are big this spring, in many different guises.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and writing about race in America
There’s a reason why Ta-Nehisi Coates is currently one of the most high-profile commentators on race in the United States.
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Excess all areas: Jack Sutherland’s gripping memoir of pharmaceutical excess
Sutherland’s book is one of the funniest and least self-righteous works on addiction that I have read in a long…
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Putin’s breadcrumbs: tracing the last days of Alexander Litvinenko
A Very Expensive Poison: the Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War With the West by Luke…
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The eccentric brilliance of Annie Dillard, a latter-day Thoreau
In Dillard’s hands, sand is moulded into an entire world.
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Too close for comfort: Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk is very nearly greater than the sum of its parts
One of the most consistent pleasures of Levy’s fiction is her complete resistance to unthinking characters, unthinking female characters in…
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Happiness is a warm gun: on the novel that inspired The Revenant
Michael Punke’s The Revenant may have informed last year’s Oscar-winning film, but it is both more complex and more honest.
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“What if?” history books normally annoy me – but History’s People is an exception
Margaret MacMillan’s selection of neglected voices in History’s People reminds us how individual choices and actions come to shape our world.
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