Books

‘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

To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova reviewed

Edmund Burke on the market and the limits of commerce

The harshness and hope of an American master

Prepare for American conservatism to be redefined

How the progressive left aligned itself with postmodernism

Helene Hanff is no dry old blue-stocking: A Slightly Foxed books essay

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell reviewed

Is secularism Christianity by other means?