Elliot Page’s memoir is a tale of tragic self-destruction
For the author, transgenderism was an escape hatch
Books
Monday
Wednesday
Milan Kundera’s ‘transcendental buffoonery’
A look at the late Czech novelist’s legacy and philosophy
Sunday
The great late Yeats
A century ago, W.B. Yeats won the Nobel Prize. It was the start of a remarkable late era for the Irish poet
Why is George Orwell so difficult to pin down?
The writer is an easy man to admire and sympathize with, but a hard one to like
Lady Caroline Lamb and the frantic bed-hopping between the great houses of England
Antonia Fraser paints a convincing, shocking picture of upper-class mores in the late eighteenth century
Lorrie Moore explores the thin veil between life and death
It’s hard to find writers ancient or modern who have used language with a music, wit and tenderness comparable to Moore’s
The troubled relationship between Mussolini and his son-in-law
Count Galeazzo Ciano’s career is uniquely revealing as an insight into the perils of joining the family business
Men at War examines homosexuality among World War Two soldiers
Luke Turner’s essential thesis is that the war opened up a brief time of sexual liberation for men
Sunday
The afterlife of Christopher Hitchens
Faced with a growing pile of Hitchenalia, the obvious question is ‘why?’
The dauntless spirit of Richard Halliburton
The writer’s forgotten imagination and commitment to exploration merit revival
The king and queen who saved the British monarchy
A well-researched new biography of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
How refugees saved a town in upstate New York
But will the restoration of Utica survive?
Inside the world of multilevel marketing
Pyramid schemes work because we all have points of vulnerability
Tom Hanks should stick to acting
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is as clumsy as its plodding title
Where will the vogue for censoring our best-loved authors lead?
It seems that the ‘revised’ titles are likely to become the norm
Saturday
Martin Amis’s death is the end of a great British comic tradition
The novelist leaves a distinctive and distinguished legacy
Tuesday
Judy Blume steps on the J.K. Rowling landmine
It went badly, as might be imagined
Monday
Donald Trump to publish 1995 letter from King Charles
The new King wrote to the Donald in 1995 to thank him for offering honorary Mar-a-Lago membership
Thursday
Who was the real Martin Luther King, Jr.?
King: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years
What makes a novel funny?
In search of the great American comic novel