Have you ever heard of the St. Brice’s Day Massacre?
Crypt is a collection of seven essays that unearth details about how certain people lived and died in the past
Book review
Friday
Wednesday
An incisive memoir of life in the cloisters
Catherine Coldstream refuses to be bitter and Cloistered is all the more beautiful, and holy, as a result
Nellie Bowles critiques progressivism and the media that covers it
One of many fascinating things to be learned from Morning After the Revolution is the process by which someone gets canceled
A history of the LGBTQ+ aspects of the Boy Scout movement
Mike De Socio’s Morally Straight details how forty years of gay activism diversified the group for the better
Salman Rushdie’s memoir is a devastating and powerful account of near-death
The writer remains strong, his determination to write a beacon for anyone who cares about freedom of thought and speech
A skillful retelling of one of World War Two’s most dramatic stories
Nahlah Ayed transports the reader to World War Two as experienced by the brave SOE agents who landed behind enemy lines
Friday
The problem with westerners seeking enlightenment in Asia
Christopher Harding is more tolerant than I am and has a greater affinity with the seekers. But he has written a very interesting book as a result
Tuesday
The wild times on the late, great John Belushi’s most famous film
Daniel de Visé’s entertaining — if that is the right word — canter through Belushi and Aykroyd’s lives and times covers a fair number of bases
The ups and downs of the long road toward workplace parity
Josie Cox has persuasively documented the steady but halting progress that women have made in the workplace
Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumously published novel is unconvincing
Until August has a curiously half-baked feel, as if it’s a souvenir of a great man’s legacy rather than a work in itself
A revelatory account of the post-war exploits of the House of Windsor
Alexander Larman’s Power and Glory is a tale of survival
Sunday
Where is the clarity in modern center-right foreign policy?
Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea suggest a response to the new isolationism that is essential for understanding contemporary foreign policy debates on the right
An impressive examination of the conjoined fates of Iraq and the United States
Steve Coll’s title alludes to Homer, and his subject matter has the arc of Greek tragedy
An unvarnished insight into the mind of Sonny Rollins
Even if jazz has developed stylistically in ways the jazz saxophonist might not have foreseen, its founding attitudes are enduring
A look into Billie Holiday’s final year
Paul Alexander is on a mission to correct what he sees as misrepresentations of the singer’s life and personality
Who’s afraid of Judith Butler?
The gender theorist’s first mainstream publication is unconvincing
Thursday
Who’s really behind the Biden administration’s foreign policy?
Alexander Ward’s carefully researched new account argues Biden is POTUS in name only
Coleman Hughes’s case for a colorblind future
The End of Race Politics expands on the arguments the writer has made for several years
War hero, bon viveur, Japanese spy: Frederick Rutland wore many masks
Beverly Hills Spy is the story of the espionage war with Japan, and the damaging rivalry between intelligence services that prevented them from working together
The wit and wisdom of Margaret Cavendish
As a portrait of the thrilling, rackety milieu of the seventeenth-century literary world, Francesca Peacock’s Pure Wit is truly delightful
