Books

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman by Ilhan Omar reviewed

The forgotten story of a Renaissance pioneer

Why you should spend the lockdown reading George R.R. Martin ’ s epic fantasy series

The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us About the Language of Science by

Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason by Dave Rubin reviewed

Lockdown has been more illustrative of the gender gap in reading than any event I can remember

After Fault Lines, his acclaimed family history, David Pryce-Jones has written another kind of autobiography: Signatures, the memoirs of a bibliophile

Rushdie on fathers, fictions and fatwas

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo reviewed

Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi reviewed

Daily reading recommendations from The Spectator’s writers and editors

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat reviewed

The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World by Samuel Zipp reviewed

The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas that Will Win the Future by Charlie Kirk reviewed

D.J. Taylor tracks down the proofreaders and heartbreakers who were the toast of Blitz-era London

Chandler’s California is a cultural desert stretching along the western edge of a continental wasteland

India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy by Madhav Khosla reviewed