Paul Theroux’s family values
He’s never been averse to writing about toxic family relationships
Book review
Tuesday
A.M. Homes’s state of paranoia
Her latest leaves us stranded between serious fiction and a particularly extreme Reddit forum
The faulty towers of higher education
The college system is broken — can it be fixed?
Frank Buckley’s right direction
Can a socially conservative, economically centrist GOP win elections?
Monday
Henry Kissinger’s likely last book is on leadership
And his biographies of great lives sparkle nicely
Berlin as the unreal city
A new book makes you ask, somewhat apprehensively, what will happen there next
Thursday
The rise of gay Washington
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick reviewed
The circus that was 80s literary Britain
A new book remembers all the excitement and absurdity
How not to live a life
Original Sins by Matt Rowland Hill reviewed
NIMBYs to the left of me, YIMBYs to the left
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing by Max Holleran reviewed
Helen DeWitt’s brilliance and unsuccess
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt reviewed
Thursday
A royal affair
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor — the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown reviewed
Faces off
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris reviewed
Forever young
Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff reviewed
A quiet delight
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón and My Grief, The Sun by Sanna Wani reviewed
Carry on regardless
The Twilight World by Werner Herzog reviewed
A grand slam
The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer reviewed
Wednesday
Dave Rubin’s lazy new book
It’s a case study in what not to do
Monday
The imperfect spy
A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen, America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy by Lis Wiehl reviewed
Faeries and queens
Flint and Mirror by John Crowley reviewed