Madness and cannibalism with David Grann
The author guides us through a military operation gone horribly awry
Book review
Thursday
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
Bret Easton Ellis’s comeback is a bloody masterpiece
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis reviewed
Quentin Tarantino’s iconoclastic obsessions
How can an established artist, especially one this famous, pivot to criticism?
The struggle of the female musician
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad reviewed
Tuesday
Stephen Amidon’s day of the locust
A new novel explores the lengths communities will go to protect their own
Bob Dylan’s tower of song
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan reviewed
Was the Queen Mother ever really funny?
Do Let’s Have Another Drink!: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Gareth Russell reviewed
Monday
The return of Cormac McCarthy
Arguably America’s greatest living novelist is back with two novels
Friday
Warning: this book may make you like Bono
Surrender is full of wry asides on fame, faith and self-flagellation
