Books

It has become another improbable victim of the culture wars

Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson reviewed

The Blind Light by Stuart Evers reviewed

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life by Jonathan Alter reviewed

Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation by Candace Owens reviewed

Martin Amis has written another autobiography — sort of

‘All of the things that we need, all of the things that this country needs to get back on track, Trump is for and Biden is against’

The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag by Peter Burke reviewed

Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi reviewed

The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld reviewed

Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44 by Isaac Matarasso reviewed

E.E. Cummings dedicated his collection of poetry No Thanks to all the publishers who turned it down

You do not challenge any part of this politically correct madness without risking everything. I recommend that more of us do just that

From CIA officer to thriller-writer: the shadowy world of J.R. Seeger