Books

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon by Simon Fenwick reviewed

Oversensitive readers can now line-edit novels by getting mad at their content on the internet

Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn reviewed

Was Flannery O’Connor a racist, or was she not?

While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams reviewed

The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari reviewed

Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s ‘Girl Stunt Reporters’ by Kim Todd reviewed

For an artist to qualify as a genius, he only has to do create a single masterpiece once. Twain did it twice

The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching reviewed

The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White reviewed

If the author was such a vile misogynist, why did so many women seem to find him so irresistible?

His new book may be self-help, but it’s self-help for people whose problems are fundamentally philosophical

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale reviewed

The world’s biggest bookstore has sided firmly with the bullies

Paradise: Dante’s Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray reviewed

There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura reviewed

Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee reviewed