Books

Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann 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

Satan in New York

Ideas and theories were not Mencken’s meat and drink. Real people and social comedy were

New York Times author denounces New York Times for publicizing her book

Savage Messiah: How Dr Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization by Jim Proser reviewed

An exclusive extract from Daisy Dunn’s new biography of Pliny

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter reviewed