Edward VIII: Unlucky in love, or a Nazi-loving cad?
Edward VIII: An American Life by Ted Powell reviewed
Books
Sunday
Saturday
How Michelle Obama became a diva
And the media carried on pretending she was flawless
Monday
Anthony Powell gets the superb new biography he deserves
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling reviewed
Sunday
To Kill a Mockingbird would probably not find a publisher in the age of #MeToo
The kind of old-fashioned humanism espoused by Harper Lee is being left behind and replaced with radical, uncompromising demands
Friday
The end times of the liberal order?
Three new books chart the return of great power rivalry
Saturday
Chapo Trap House’s revolution fizzles
The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason by Chapo Trap House reviewed
Saturday
Stormy Daniels’s honesty issues
Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels reviewed
Tuesday
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen speaks from beyond the grave
More power and glory from the dead poet, singer, lover and humourist
Tuesday
Reagan, victor of the Cold War, with a little help from Lech Walesa and the Pope
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland by Seth G. Jones reviewed
Monday
How moderates can save immigration reform
Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders reviewed
Thursday
The scramble for the Middle East: Britain and America fall out
Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East by James Barr reviewed
Wednesday
Did the Russian mafia help Trump along his way to the Oval Office?
House of Trump, House of Putin by Craig Unger reviewed.
Monday
Meet Michiko Kakutani, the conservative
The former New York Times reviewer’s study of truth reveals how she’s been driven to outrage by the erosion of cultural and critical values.
Thursday
‘President Pussy Grabber’ has his way with the GOP
A new book argues that Trump could destroy the Republican Party.
Wednesday
The comic masterpiece of Donald J. Trump
Conrad Black explains how the President consistently and hilariously outplays his enemies, provoking and then exploiting the friction between him and them to raise himself to ever greater heights.
Friday
Lionel Shriver and the rigging of the book market
Should the arts reflect the demographic make-up of their society, and be subject to quotas and affirmative action, in the name of diversity? Or should they be exempt from the imposition of quotas, as a meritocracy in which the only affirmative action is the one that recognises talent? This, I reckon, is the question at … Read more
Monday
How I became Peter Fallow
Arranging a dinner between Tom Wolfe and Christopher Hitchens led to my immortalisation in literature.
Friday
What does Ronan Farrow want next?
The ‘Hollywood prince who torched the castle’ is to this decade what Samantha Power was to the last
Wednesday
The sex-mad genius of Philip Roth
A few years ago I asked Martin Amis about Philip Roth. “All his dildos,” he replied, “he’s not letting it go.” At the time the comment struck me as harsh, but this morning when I saw the sad news of Roth’s death I remembered it with a little amusement. I understood what Amis was getting at: Roth … Read more
Tuesday
Churchill was all in favour of a united Europe — as long as it didn’t include Britain
Dr Felix Klos is an extremely personable, highly intelligent American-Dutch historian who has undertaken much archival research, worked extremely hard and is an excellent writer. In trying to persuade us that Churchill favoured Britain joining a federal Europe, however, he comes up against several immovable obstacles. The most serious of these is that in the … Read more
