Paradais City
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor reviewed
Book review
Monday
You had to be there
Everybody Thought We Were Crazy by Mark Rozzo reviewed
Thursday
Fit to print
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War by Deborah Cohen reviewed
Diversifying democracy
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk reviewed
A private life
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, edited and translated by Marjorie Perloff, reviewed
Beautiful and damned
Astrid Sees All by Natalie Standiford reviewed
Monday
Imagining Rimbaud
The more one knows about Rimbaud and literary criticism, the more one will enjoy the book’s subtler jibes
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