The fall of a Stuart spin doctor
The Duke of Buckingham served King James I better as a lover than a statesman – and his blunders laid…
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Graham Brady’s main-character energy
In his memoir Kingmaker, the former chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee argues his party could have avoided disaster –…
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Celebrity book clubs are bad for literature
The novel becoming a cultural accessory means to look like a reader, not be one.
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From Carol Woolton to Sonia Purnell: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Red Threads by Henry Bell and The Story of Nature by Jeremy Mynott.
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Burning Planet takes an alien’s-eye view of humanity
Sunil Amrith’s panoptic history shows how our pursuit of freedom has brought ruin to the Earth.
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The fraught history of Christianity and sex
Diarmaid MacCulloch shows how for centuries the Church has tried to resolve the tension between sacred and profane.
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Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
The author of Intermezzo talks to Fintan O’Toole about living with patriarchy, writing good sex, and the post-religious world.
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The haunted wood of children’s literature
Britain’s beloved childhood books are realms of conflict and pain as much as nostalgia and delight.
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