Books

Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton reviewed

Twitter mobs are making journalism and literature more boring

We must stand up for women who dare to tell the truth

In this excerpt from his autobiography Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime, David Pryce-Jones meets the survivors of the 20th century

Rake’s Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis by Rachel Johnson reviewed

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