The troubled relationship between Mussolini and his son-in-law
Count Galeazzo Ciano’s career is uniquely revealing as an insight into the perils of joining the family business
Book review
Sunday
Men at War examines homosexuality among World War Two soldiers
Luke Turner’s essential thesis is that the war opened up a brief time of sexual liberation for men
Sunday
The king and queen who saved the British monarchy
A well-researched new biography of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
How refugees saved a town in upstate New York
But will the restoration of Utica survive?
Inside the world of multilevel marketing
Pyramid schemes work because we all have points of vulnerability
Tom Hanks should stick to acting
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is as clumsy as its plodding title
Thursday
Who was the real Martin Luther King, Jr.?
King: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years
Curtis Sittenfeld is the great American observer
In Romantic Comedy , we get her insight into a new phenomenon — celebrity of the modern age
Madness and cannibalism with David Grann
The author guides us through a military operation gone horribly awry
Ernest Hilbert weathers the storms of life and fatherhood
Storm Swimmer is a collection both haunted and nurtured by waters
Forbidden love in the Great War
If Alice Winn’s material is familiar, she handles it with skill and panache
Sunday
Shipwrecks, amputations and polar-bear attacks: the doomed voyage of the Karluk
Rudyard Kipling would have appreciated this book
Andrey Kurkov brings clarity to the Ukraine invasion
The highest compliment that can be paid to Kurkov’s diary is that it is not a work of art
Friday
The quiet rise of Outback Noir
A new subgenre of Australian detective fiction is gaining global acclaim
Saturday
There’s more to Pamela Anderson than Playboy and sex tapes
Unfortunately, most of Love, Pamela fails in its quest for victimhood and intellectualism
Monday
Vince McMahon: the modern-day P.T. Barnum who changed America
The new biography Ringmaster unpacks a controversial legend
Tom Crewe’s The New Life is sophisticated, intelligent and gripping
This book doesn’t pretend that its subjects are twenty-first century people in different clothes
Wednesday
Hoover damned
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage reviewed
From Russia with love
Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy reviewed
Behind closed doors
The Cloisters by Katy Hays reviewed