Shipwrecks, amputations and polar-bear attacks: the doomed voyage of the Karluk
Rudyard Kipling would have appreciated this book
Books
Sunday
Andrey Kurkov brings clarity to the Ukraine invasion
The highest compliment that can be paid to Kurkov’s diary is that it is not a work of art
Friday
The quiet rise of Outback Noir
A new subgenre of Australian detective fiction is gaining global acclaim
Monday
Prince Andrew wants an American-penned memoir, too
He hopes to follow in his nephew Harry’s footsteps
Sunday
DeSantis’s book reveals a serious guy — and a private one
The book is scant on personal details, but its success bodes well for his 2024 aspirations
Wednesday
How America influenced George Orwell
The legendary British author’s attitude to the US is curiously double-edged
Saturday
There’s more to Pamela Anderson than Playboy and sex tapes
Unfortunately, most of Love, Pamela fails in its quest for victimhood and intellectualism
Friday
Do James Bond’s would-be censors have a point?
Ian Fleming’s estate, though ultimately wrong, has tackled the issue with circumspection
Monday
The difficulties of writing historical fiction
Historians ask ‘What?’ Novelists ask ‘What if?’
Why does a new Tolkien biography remain elusive?
His books and television adaptations keep coming, but we know little of J.R.R. Tolkien’s life
Vince McMahon: the modern-day P.T. Barnum who changed America
The new biography Ringmaster unpacks a controversial legend
Tom Crewe’s The New Life is sophisticated, intelligent and gripping
This book doesn’t pretend that its subjects are twenty-first century people in different clothes
The enigmatic rise of Colleen Hoover
Meet the world’s bestselling author, a self-made forty-three-year-old mom you probably haven’t heard of
Monday
Reading Roald Dahl in a dystopian world
His works are being censored decades after he might have disapproved
Wednesday
Hoover damned
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage reviewed
The art of the royal memoir
Britain’s royal family sells books like nobody’s business
From Russia with love
Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy reviewed
Behind closed doors
The Cloisters by Katy Hays reviewed
Bret Easton Ellis’s comeback is a bloody masterpiece
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis reviewed
Quentin Tarantino’s iconoclastic obsessions
How can an established artist, especially one this famous, pivot to criticism?