All things lead to 9/11
An American Story, by Christopher Priest, reviewed
Books
Thursday
How a faulty map led to the discovery of America
Theatre of the World: The Maps that Made History reviewed
The personality test that conned the world
What’s Your Type? The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing reviewed
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
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
Hoping to find happiness
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks reviewed
Thursday
The old man and his muse: Hemingway’s toe-curling infatuation with Adriana Ivancich
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse reviewed
A date with Venus in Tahiti
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World reviewed
Thursday
Modernist architecture isn’t barbarous – but the blinkered rejection of it is
Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism by James Stevens Curl reviewed
How scary is dairy?
Milk! A 10,000 Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky reviewed
Glenda Jackson might have made a magnificent Hamlet
Performing Hamlet: Actors in the Modern Age by Jonathan Croall reviewed
Will all whales soon be extinct?
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Largest Animals by Nick Pyenson reviewed
Too much American angst: the latest short stories
New collections by A.M. Homes, Joseph O’Neill, Christine Schutt, Margarita García Robayo and Gaito Gazdanov reviewed
The translator and spy: two sides of the same coin
Sympathy for the Traitor by Mark Polizzotti reviewed
Jimmy Page is a Capricorn – that says it all
Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography by Chris Salewicz reviewed
Thursday
Ménage à quatre with Robert Graves
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-Bye to All That, 1895–1929 by Jean Moorcroft Wilson reviewed
The plight of the returnee
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen reviewed.
How do we envisage Shakespeare’s wife?
Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife by Katherine West Scheil reviewed.
A feast for foot fetishists
The Mummy’s Foot and the Big Toe by Alan Krell 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.
