Books
Bust?: Saving the Economy, Democracy and our Sanity by Robert Peston and Kishan Koria- Review
"So long as we have an economic system geared towards the accumulation of wealth rather than the acquisition of it, inequalities will continue to widen"
Book recommendations from the editors’ desk
"It’s rare that I find non-fiction to be such a page-turner, but Tara Westover’s autobiography was just that."
Greg Heffley: A Hero of Our Time
Few modern comic heroes align with our distinctive age – an age which Dickens’s...
The man of the moment: Review of Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin
"Baldwin does his best to humanise Starmer and to deflate the view of him as “Mr Boring”."
Review: Chaucer Here and Now, Weston Library
"Mansplaining scribes, scandalised censors, and unfinished endings. Even from day one, there is no stable and single Chaucer."
There’s more to prehistory than cave drawings and diplodocuses
Katie Sayer revisits Yuval Noah Harari's tale of a revolutionary world
A flawed man with a revolutionary aim
Ethan Croft explores Philippe Girard's admirable Toussaint Louverture: a revolutionary life
The science books that every non-scientist should read
Rosalie Wells lists the best science and medicine books to read this summer
“A woman sitting alone, doing nothing”
Tilly Nevin reviews Mary Ruefle’s stunning and startling new collection 'My Private Property'
A rhetorical revolution on Trump?
Ethan Croft explores the academic discussion of Donald Trump's election and administration
Interview: A.C. Grayling
John Maier in conversation with A.C. Grayling about New Atheism, analytic philosophy, and the EU
Tiny words: on the art of small talk
Ellie Duncan ruminates on the place of everyday interaction in literary writing
‘Deeper than the Abyss’: Resisting the Holocaust
Sam Sussman reviews Peter Hayes' new book, 'Why? Explaining the Holocaust'
Representing sex in young adult fiction
Cherwell Books focuses on the importance of consent and honesty
Imagination and immediacy in travel writing
Ellie Duncan interviews Neil McQuillian, Senior Editor at Rough Guides
Between the World and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Altair Brandon-Salmon on an autobiographical look at American racism
Reinvention: a love affair with language
Tilly Nevin reviews approaches to the interplay of language and creativity
Writing the uncanny and the lyrical
Tilly Nevin reviews Gillian Cross and Daisy Johnson in conversation
Society divided: Dickens and revolution
Ethan Croft considers the politics of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
