Books

A short story

The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler reviewed

The Denial by Ross Clark reviewed

The Spectator’s writers and friends recommend the best books, richest reads and most pandemical page-turners of 2020

A virtual visit in the author’s beloved Los Angeles

Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch reviewed

Wolfe excelled at capturing human foibles and petty vanities; anything deeper than that escaped him

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