The return of Cormac McCarthy
Arguably America’s greatest living novelist is back with two novels
Book review
Monday
Friday
Warning: this book may make you like Bono
Surrender is full of wry asides on fame, faith and self-flagellation
Sunday
The prodigal daughter
Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead reviewed
Nick Cave’s musings on life, death and creativity
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan reviewed
The bookish life of John Carey
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey reviewed
Living one’s best life
It helps to have a soft spot for life-wisdom books
A comedian explains how to quit social media
James Acaster has not stopped exploring where he might want to go
Wednesday
Alan Rickman and the misery of being famous
He was an in-demand movie star yet it seemed to bring him only stress and unhappiness
Tuesday
Bob Dylan, the song and dance man
A new biography captures his entire world
Exploring the decline of Britain’s birds
Patrick Galbraith’s latest goes searching for kittiwakes and grouses
The Soviets brought far from home
Kilometer 101 explores political undesirables who were exiled from Moscow
A haunting novel remembers 1990s Ukraine
Explored commonalities between Ukraine and Russia have since erupted into war
Saturday
No stone unturned
Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, has written a very bad book
Tuesday
Porn again
There’s no reconciling the clash between the sex positivity movement and chastity
Paul Theroux’s family values
He’s never been averse to writing about toxic family relationships
A.M. Homes’s state of paranoia
Her latest leaves us stranded between serious fiction and a particularly extreme Reddit forum
The faulty towers of higher education
The college system is broken — can it be fixed?
Frank Buckley’s right direction
Can a socially conservative, economically centrist GOP win elections?
Monday
Henry Kissinger’s likely last book is on leadership
And his biographies of great lives sparkle nicely
Berlin as the unreal city
A new book makes you ask, somewhat apprehensively, what will happen there next