TeaHis vast collection of essays by 43 different authors, including seven lords, four baronesses, a dame and three knights of the realm, may be the closest we have to a semi-official reflection on the causes and consequences of Brexit. Its editor, Sir Anthony Selden, is Honorary Historian of 10 Downing Street and has written the
A The son leaves home for university and visits his parents every fortnight for 20 years, dreading every encounter because of his father’s oppressive control and his mother’s self-effacing passivity. Then one day, he changes his phone number and stops all contact. Andrea Bajani’s The Anniversary is written from the perspective of this son, 10
Many people dream of long summer reads, but to actually dig into the books, you have to steal any possible moment.
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IIn January 2015, two al-Qaeda members shot dead cartoonists at the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in retaliation for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Over the following weeks, my Facebook page split into two. Many of my childhood friends (I grew up in France and went to school near Paris) expressed their
TeaHere’s a scene from Annie Lord’s novel that will be instantly familiar to any young person who has spent time in a pub or nightclub recently. Daisy and Maya, two best friends in their mid-20s, lament the poor state of the dating market. “It’s just shit out there,” says Daisy. “Every time we go out,
All summer blockbuster hopes are pinned on Christopher Nolan’s odyssey, and all promise – as the trailers have shown – of spectacular effects, shocks and thrills. You will be taken inside the cave of the terrifying one-eyed giant Cyclops Polyphemus, who loves to dine on human flesh. You will visit the dim and murky shores
People are reading less books. The Atlantic’s Rose Horowitz discusses what a post-literate world might look like.
A few weeks ago, I shared a list of 650+ new queer books coming out in the first half of 2026. Now, I’m back with a spreadsheet of 250+ new weird books coming out in the second half of the year. You can see these are very different numbers, and that’s because I usually learn