Kissinger the Kantian idealist? Maybe
Kissinger – 1923-1968: the Idealist by Niall Ferguson offered an intriguing read on the president’s foreign policy.
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Cracking up in County Mayo: Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone
Beatlebone, which has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, takes John Lennon to the west of Ireland.
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On the threshold: The Early Stories by Truman Capote
A new collection offers an intriguing glimpse of Capote as a boy: precocious, provocative, spirited and strange, a “pocket Merlin” spinning tall tales.
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Menacing new fiction, political odd couples and the European Lydia Davis
This week the New Statesman recommends books by Wayne Price, Dorthe Nors and Giles Radice.
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The gangsters of Rome: the brutal side of the ancient city
The Roman emperors created a world that seems modern but contains unspeakable horrors, as new books by Mary Beard and…
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“High-dork mumbo-jumbo”: David Mitchell’s Slade House
For all its terrifying, exciting moments, Slade House is at best a compulsively readable lark, too in thrall to its own eerie cosmology.
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Confessions of an art nun: how Patti Smith gave her all
M Train is an extroadinary book about creation and the sheer loneliness of making art.
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The Cabaret of Plants shows us the value of looking down
Richard Mabey leaps around the world as easily as Ariel, and reminds us that it’s vital to see plants as more…
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