From Edmund White to Philip Marsden: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Threads of Empire by Dorothy Armstrong and Beartooth by Callan Wink.
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The long reign of the Caesars
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
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The woman who made the rape kit
This story of Martha Goddard’s forensic method does more than reclaim her role in history – it gives her a…
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The contested life of Roger Casement
The Irish nationalist was caught in the fault lines between empire and nation, colonised and coloniser, public face and private…
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The death of the British Catholic novel
Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover.
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Bridget Jones’s hollow feminism
The novels portrayed the working woman of the Nineties as a hot mess. By laughing at her, we laughed at…
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From Paul Theroux to Tash Aw: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Way Ancient Greeks Matters by Reviel Netz and Gary Lineker: A Portrait of a Football Icon.
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“There is no such thing as Starmerism”
An account of the Labour Party’s rise to power presents the PM as a man with a deep aversion to…
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