Books

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

The thrill is gone for lovers of fiction. Joseph Bottum on the strange death of the novel

Imagine how excited the board members of Barnes and Noble and Penguin Random House must have been when they came up with this genius idea

Or, the Manic Pixie Inclusive Totally Woke Dream Manuscript

My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide by Jessica Stern reviewed

The mysterious appeal of my first detective: A Slightly Foxed books Essay