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
Books
Sunday
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
Curtis Sittenfeld is the great American observer
In Romantic Comedy , we get her insight into a new phenomenon — celebrity of the modern age
Madness and cannibalism with David Grann
The author guides us through a military operation gone horribly awry
Ernest Hilbert weathers the storms of life and fatherhood
Storm Swimmer is a collection both haunted and nurtured by waters
Forbidden love in the Great War
If Alice Winn’s material is familiar, she handles it with skill and panache
Tuesday
The Windsors at War tells the rest of Edward VIII’s story
The lively, engrossing tale chronicles the royals through World War Two
