30 Aug 2021 - 1:10am

Where lockdown is a fairytale In Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, hostages are happy

Suzannah Lipscomb

30.08

The West has lost its virtue We have abandoned the taboos that held us together

Paul Kingsnorth

23.08

Activists aren’t what they used to be Today's pious protestors could learn a lot from Dorothy Day

Niamh Mulvey

20.08

Roger Scruton is the heretic we need The secret radical had no time for lying fools

Douglas Murray

19.08

The Leopard’s lessons in love Romance, in Lampedusa's masterpiece, will leave you wanting more

Horatio Clare

16.08

How America became a mad house A debauched Sixties novel might put you off booze

Christopher Caldwell

12.08

The Magic Mountain will consume you Has Twitter ruined Thomas Mann's classic?

Ben Judah

11.08

Covid isn’t the end An elegy to vanished kingdoms shows this is not how civilisations collapse

Niall Gooch

10.08

Teenagers need to have sex again A book about owls set the scene for my own awakening

Julie Burchill

09.08

Lessons in lockdown from a psychiatric ward A re-issued memoir from the sixties feels eerily familiar

Frances Wilson