Turning the page on James Bond
James Bond was first a literary hero
Books
Monday
Wednesday
Why isn’t Netflix canceling Roald Dahl?
There’s money to be made in spite of his anti-Semitism and contempt for big business
Thursday
An orange or an egg? Determining the shape of the world
Latitude: The True Story of the World’s First Scientific Expedition by Nicholas Crane reviewed
Tuesday
How Hitler’s great gamble nearly paid off
The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945 by Frank McDonough reviewed
Thursday
The cult of Sally Rooney
Not a godlike millennial sage, but a talented author at the start of a promising career
Wednesday
What Richard Scarry did all day
Dick loved a friendly contest with the woke and PC crowd of yore
The odd couple: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate reviewed
Saturday
A fatal clash of civilizations
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest by Fernando Cervantes reviewed
A letter to George Steiner
George Steiner was easier to admire than to love
Wednesday
Will Fergie spill the tea on Prince Andrew?
Is it time for a tell-all for the best-seller?
Friday
The Browning version
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson reviewed
Thursday
In search of Nirad Chaudhuri
The forgotten visionary of British India
Monday
Will Tripp keeps it short
Will Tripp Goes Hollywood by Harry Stein reviewed
Tuesday
I was fathernapped
Someone couldn’t seriously have called the police and told them I was a threat to my children
Monday
Is caste the American class system?
Only in fiction did Faulkner dare to reveal what he knew about the code of caste
Men of letters
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon by Simon Fenwick reviewed
Wednesday
Let’s just go ahead and ban books
Oversensitive readers can now line-edit novels by getting mad at their content on the internet
Wednesday
Nature is healing
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn reviewed
Monday
The soul of Flannery O’Connor
Was Flannery O’Connor a racist, or was she not?
Parse the curse
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter reviewed