Why liberal democracy is already a dying fantasy
In her new polemic, Autocracy, Inc, Anne Applebaum’s pro-liberty stance is sound, but her view of Western politics is deeply rose-tinted
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In her new polemic, Autocracy, Inc, Anne Applebaum’s pro-liberty stance is sound, but her view of Western politics is deeply rose-tinted
The debut novel by the late Victor Heringer, at last appearing in English, is a witty, restless tale, albeit one rough around the edges
Plunder?, Justin M Jacobs’s provocative new study of artefacts in the West, casts aside simple slogans and reveals a more complex history
The Newsmongers, a history of tabloid journalism by Terry Kirby, features plenty of strange figures, but some equally strange arguments too
Released in a fine new translation, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz’s novel Great Fear on the Mountain is an eerie piece of high-altitude Gothicism
Murder in Harrogate, a crime-writing anthology featuring MW Craven, Janice Hallett and Abir Mukherjee, is witty, sharp and extremely local
Kate Zambreno’s books both detail her life and muse on her literary forebears, but this memoir of Covid-era parenting excels at neither
In Strange Relations, Ralf Webb re-evaluates four great writers: Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, John Cheever and James Baldwin
Eley Williams is one of Britain’s most feted young novelists, but the stories in Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good can verge on the twee
In Coming of Age, Lucy Foulkes explains why teenagers should be allowed to take risks – and shouldn’t be overprotected
Jen Hadfield’s memoir, Storm Pegs, immerses us in Shetland’s wild life, from slimy sea molluscs to grand island vistas
The Fun We Had, a beautiful, gentle, rhyming story by Charissa Coulthard, sees a little girl visit her elderly grandmother, and reminisce
Michael Nott’s unsanctimonious biography of Thom Gunn, A Cool Queer Life, draws out his complexities and contradictions
Ed Simon’s Devil’s Contract is a highly impassioned but overambitious attempt to unpack the Faustian bargain over 2000 years
Sheila Curran Bernard’s Bring Judgment Day rescues the real Lead Belly from the murderous hypocrisy of Jim Crow’s America
Mary and the Rabbit Dream, a magnificent debut novel by Noémi Kiss-Deáki, fictionalises the strange 18th-century tale of Mary Toft
For years, the comedian’s mother pursued an affair with a golf pro – as painfully, hilariously explored in Baddiel’s My Family
After giving constitutional advice in war-torn countries such as Iraq, CL Skach puts forward ideas for a new society in How to Be a Citizen
Time Runs like a River, Emma Carlisle’s latest book, uses gentle illustrations and lilting rhymes to foster a surprisingly deep message
Rat City, a superb scientific history, shows how John B Calhoun’s pioneering research became influential – horribly, and wrongly, so