Jacinda Ardern’s unexamined life
In her memoir, the former prime minister seems more concerned with the symbols of politics than the actual politics the prompted…
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Giorgia Meloni’s selective memory
The Italian prime minister’s autobiography revises her and her country’s history. But Meloni’s success is a template for right populist…
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How a Moscow archivist exposed the KGB, file by file
Gordon Corera’s account of the audacious counter-intelligence operative Vasili Mitrokhin is non-fiction that reads like a spy thriller.
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How to do it like a movie star
The lessons an intimacy coordinator is teaching the film industry about real sex apply off screen and on.
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Smells like Jane Austen
A Harrods-only Pride and Prejudice perfume profanes our greatest novelist.
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If literature is dead, at least the funeral is well attended
And Dostoevsky is here too!
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The search for queer cinema
Ryan Gilbey’s unconventional memoir It Used to Be Witches is wrapped in the film critic’s study of LGBTQ+ movie-making.
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Princess Diana’s kinder Britain
A new biography plays down the royal’s cultural impact – but she softened the hard edges of the Thatcher era.
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