Comrade Corbyn: a morality tale, of sorts
Stephen Bush reviews Rosa Prince’s biography of Jeremy Corbyn.
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This is London: to know the future of our cities, we must see immigration close-up
This Is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah should be mandatory reading for every MP.
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Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a powerful meditation on humanity
Sara Baume’s sympathy for her “wonkety” characters is infectious, and turns this portrait of an unusual friendship into something beautiful.
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The political perils of Keeping Calm and Carrying On
What Owen Hatherley’s The Ministry of Nostalgia ultimately misses is that our relationship to the past is about personal taste as…
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Henning Mankell’s Quicksand is a grave, yet intensely beautiful, book
The chief strength of this book – and what makes it such a beautiful, moving document – is in the…
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Mass murder by muddle: a new history of the Holocaust
An immense posthumous work from the historian David Cesarani shows that Nazi policies were often “confused, contradictory, half-baked”.
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Han Kang’s Human Acts chronicles the tragedy of ordinariness violated
Human Acts deals with the obliteration, both physical and psychic, of hundreds of its own citizens by the South Korean…
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In Julian Barnes’ The Noise of Time, Shostakovich is chopped up and hemmed in
Julian Barnes’ latest novel is an attempt at the crystalline, obliquely passionate historical novel as practised by Penelope Fitzgerald.
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