The confessions of Pope Francis
Can Hope, his autobiographical meditations on migration, sexuality and war, assuage a Catholic church in crisis?
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Rewriting the story of Gisèle Pelicot
Caroline Darian’s I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again – an account of her father’s abuse of her mother – suggests…
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Yukio Mishima’s lifelong death wish
The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.
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Elsa Morante’s wild, compelling fiction
This vivid story of class and family by the rediscovered Italian novelist was where Elena Ferrante “discovered what literature can…
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Lessons from the afterlife
In A Second Act, intensive care doctor Matt Morgan collects stories from patients who returned from death. Can they teach…
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From Rochelle Gurstein to Philippa Found: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Pub by Philip Howell and Runaway Horses by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini.
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Inside the Royal Society of Literature’s civil war
Amid allegations of censorship, secrecy and elitism, the 300-year-old institution is tearing itself apart.
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Did the Tories create modern Britain?
A revisionist history claims the postwar consensus was shaped by Conservative visions.
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