Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary is a fierce chronicle of self-invention
The novelist and activist details how she fashioned herself out of collisions with her mother
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Leo Varadkar: the man who won Brexit
In his new memoir, the former taoiseach defends his polarising legacy
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Whigs and Tories shaped modern Britain
George Owers’s new book about the two-party political system is rich in history – but it misses one vital detail.
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A glimpse into fractured France
Andrew Hussey’s book on a “divided nation” veers too close to the personal over the political when diagnosing the Fifth…
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Dr AI will see you now
Human doctors may be fallible, but they have a tool that AI medicine will never have: judgement.
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Jung Chang’s critical distance
In her sequel to Wild Swans, the exiled author reflects on China from her adopted British home.
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The quiet power of noble craft
James Fox’s stories of stonewalling and lettercutting take readers a world away from craft-shop kitsch.
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Do youth clubs still matter?
British youth clubs began as social experiments and ended up safe havens for creativity and culture. What happens when they…
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