It was mostly in the small hours that I first read David Goodhartâs new book on caring. By coincidence, it arrived as I was trying to look after my dying father at... Read more »
In 2010, the bestselling American novelist Jodi Picoult complained that her work was suffering from sexism. Her 30 novels address weighty subjects from gay rights to gun control, and if they were... Read more »
If Elon Musk is a name that sounds as if it was invented by Ian Fleming, thereâs more than a hint of the Bond villain about the South Africa-born American billionaire. Itâs... Read more »
In 2011, the psychologist (and Nobel laureate) Daniel Kahneman proposed that we humans are bimodal animals capable only of two modes of thought. One (which he called âSystem 1â) is fast, instinctive... Read more »
Sally Rooneyâs breakout book, Normal People â more than 1m copies sold in the UK alone â proved her to be a peerless creator of flesh and blood characters with a keen... Read more »
If any few pages of Sally Rooneyâs fourth novel blew through the streets on an autumn wind, many a chance reader would be sure who wrote them. Theyâd recognise the sentences precision-engineered... Read more »
âWe were elsewhere people,â André Aciman writes in this memoir of the year he spent in Rome in the mid-1960s. Aged 15, he left Egypt with his deaf mother and younger brother... Read more »
Book News: Academic publishers hit with antitrust suit over Peer review
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As a youth she wasnât popular among her peers. âFat and freckly with red hair and mad about horses,â remembers Clarissa Churchill. âWe used to bully her.â Nancy Mitford was no kinder:... Read more »