Imagining Rimbaud
The more one knows about Rimbaud and literary criticism, the more one will enjoy the book’s subtler jibes
Book review
Monday
Sunday
A gay fandango
Joie de Vivre by Paul Bailey reviewed
Fall and decline
After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque through Revolution and War by Helen Rappaport reviewed
Our enemy’s enemy
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach reviewed
For whom the bell tolls
Hemingway’s Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway by Timothy Christian reviewed
Sunday
Working out isn’t so new after all
From religion to war, exercise over the centuries has been shaped by many influences
Monday
Reality bit
True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us by Danielle Lindemann reviewed
Reading gaol
Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis reviewed
Picking a fight
Why Argument Matters by Lee Siegel reviewed
Sex and the city
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors reviewed
Poor little rich girls
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson reviewed
Monday
Who killed Bambi?
The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest by Felix Salten reviewed
The invisible hand
The Maid by Nita Prose reviewed
Style and substance
Réginald-Jérôme de Mans evokes a Parisian world of glittering elegance
Thursday
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece is finally appearing
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn reviewed
Monday
All Greek to us
The Greeks by Roderick Beaton and The Greek Revolution by Mark Mazower reviewed
Why should art have ever been considered a male preserve?
The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie and Women in the Picture by Catherine McCormack reviewed
Thursday
An orange or an egg? Determining the shape of the world
Latitude: The True Story of the World’s First Scientific Expedition by Nicholas Crane reviewed
Tuesday
How Hitler’s great gamble nearly paid off
The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945 by Frank McDonough reviewed
Wednesday
The odd couple: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate reviewed
