Books
Review: ‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States, and the Middle East 1979-2003’ by Steve Coll
Tyrants should only be brought down by their own people; they become martyrs when brought down by foreigners.
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”."
Katherine Mansfield: The implosion of femininity
Priya Khaira-Hanks explores the enduring appeal of Katherine Mansfield's short stories in a modern woman's world
Iris Murdoch’s Oxford Life
Benn Sheridan reflects on Iris Murdoch's life and work in the final instalment of Through the Looking Glass
Love in a Renault Clio
Susannah Goldsbrough outlines Nancy Mitford’s tragic wit
Is it wrong for a dictionary to offend me?
Laura Wilsmore questions the OED’s newly-added definition of ‘Essex girl’
On the incompleteness of reading
Ellie Duncan gets lost in the countless possibilities of translation
Graham Greene and Oxford’s pubs
Daniel Curtis loses himself in tales of writerly pub trips in the penultimate Through the Looking Glass
