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Spy talk
One Cold War spy has his story retold by journalist Simon Kuper, while the granddaughter of another - Charlotte Philby - writes novels that explore t…
5 years ago
From Blackface to Beyoncé
Hanif Abdurraqib, the American poet and essayist, has written a book in praise of black performance challenging stereotypes and recovering figures in…
5 years ago
Writing About Faith
In Frank Skinner's A Comedian's Prayer Book the broadcaster presents a series of prayers which read like a stand-up routine exploring questions of be…
5 years ago
Churchill's reputation
Wartime saviour or the symbol of nostalgic imperialism ? David Reynolds, Priya Satia, Richard Toye and Allen Packwood join Anne McElvoy to look at th…
5 years, 1 month ago
Pleasure
As lockdowns have forced us to forgo the delights of the outside world, have we developed a taste for simple pleasures? Many have reported enjoying c…
5 years, 1 month ago
Frantz Fanon
Irrational feelings of dread, fear, and hate in a subject whose threat is often exaggerated or "phobogenesis" - one of the psychological terms explor…
5 years, 1 month ago
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
The dangerous world of an explosives factory is the setting of Inez Holden’s 1944 novel There’s No Story There. A bohemian figure who went on to writ…
5 years, 1 month ago
Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
Drugs, sex, violence and thinking about death are at the core of the George Miles cycle of five novels. New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester draws …
5 years, 1 month ago
Syria: hope and poetry
Two years of staying inside her own home in Homs, whilst 60 per cent of her neighbourhood was turned into rubble hasn't deterred architect Marwa al-S…
5 years, 1 month ago
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
The rights of tribal people, the lives of ordinary workers and the depiction of female desire were amongst the themes explored by the writer Mahaswet…
5 years, 1 month ago