Han Kang’s radical empathy
As with all the Nobel Prize-winning South Korean writer’s stories, We Do Not Part rejects escapism to reach into the…
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The brutal world of the Brothers Grimm
The folklorists’ fairy tales, in which moral laws are suspended and violence abounds, were no stranger than the progressive fantasies…
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Bill Gates vs Ren Zhengfei
The Microsoft and Huawei founders have competing visions of technological dominance. Which will endure?
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From James Birch to Mohsen M Milani: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Ninette’s War by John Jay and Captain de Havilland’s Moth by Alexander Norman.
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The secret history of the poles
How glaciers hold the key to Earth’s deep past.
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How WG Sebald found his form
His studies of Austrian writers, at times more fiction than fact, offer a guide to the artist he would become.
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How we misread The Great Gatsby
The greatness of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel lies in its details. But they are often overlooked.
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From Andrew Janiak to Alison Wood Brooks: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Sound of Utopia by Michel Krielaars and The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker.
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