The best children’s books for Christmas 2024
Find thrilling adventures and unlikely characters in the best books for young readers.
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Alan Hollinghurst’s English underground
Our finest living social novelist has made it his mission to disrupt the sexual and literary status quo.
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From Andrew Michael Hurley to Johanna Ekström: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog by Chris Pearson and Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet.
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James Lee Burke’s garden of good and evil
Over 24 novels, the bruised Louisiana detectives Robicheaux and Purcel have become one of crime writing’s great partnerships.
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Oliver Sacks’s letters from a beautiful mind
The great neurologist offered a lesson in treating our fellow humans with care and true attention.
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Thomas Mann and the European disease of nihilism
The vicious battle of ideas behind the continent’s World Wars has migrated East.
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Angela Merkel’s first principles
The former chancellor’s memoir Freedom reveals how her childhood in East Germany helped forge a doctrine of moral decency and…
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Bill Clinton reckons with populism
In his memoir, Citizen, the former president struggles to understand why his brand of post-New Deal American liberalism has failed.
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