book reviews and features

'My father Sabahattin Ali is being rediscovered'

Filiz Ali Sunday, 19 February 2017

I was 11 years old when my father was killed. A body was found near the border between Turkey and Bulgaria....

Sunday Book: Philip Hook - Rogues' Gallery

Florence Hallett Sunday, 12 February 2017

The art dealers of today must be thanking their lucky stars that Philip Hook’s remarkable history of their trade stops where it does. For while it serves as an eminently useful if rather...

The private life of Stefan Zweig in England

Jasper Rees Thursday, 09 February 2017

On 23 February 1942 at half past four in the afternoon in a secluded Brazilian hilltown called Petrópolis about an hour from Rio, a maid and her husband pushed at the bedroom door of a modest...

Sunday Book: Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology

Boyd Tonkin Sunday, 05 February 2017

Odin the All-Father, “lord of the slain, the gallows god”, has two ravens that “perch on his shoulders and whisper into his ears” as he wanders in disguise around the world. They are Huginn and...

Sunday Book: Daniel Levitin - A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics

Peter Forbes Sunday, 29 January 2017

Daniel Levitin makes one reference to Donald Trump in this book (to the latter’s claim to have seen on TV...

Dr Michael Scott: How to make the most of globalisation

Michael Scott Sunday, 29 January 2017

The Guardian called Brexit “a rejection of globalisation.” That’s as may be, but the reality is we cannot, however much we might want to, check out of the globalised world in which...

Sunday Book: Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams

Boyd Tonkin Sunday, 22 January 2017

In one of Tessa Hadley’s piercingly smart and subtle tales, a woman whose upwardly-mobile path has taken her from Leeds to Philadelphia works for a firm that manufactures instruments to test the “...

Sunday Book: James Lee Burke - The Jealous Kind

Liz Thomson Sunday, 15 January 2017

In the heat of a Texas summer, Aaron Holland Broussard comes of age. It’s 1952: the two world wars still cast their long shadows and, far away, the Americans are fighting the Russians in a...

Sunday Book: Michel Houellebecq - Unreconciled: Poems 1991-2013

Boyd Tonkin Sunday, 08 January 2017

The American poet-critic Randall Jarrell once entitled a collection of essays A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. He might have enjoyed Michel Houellebecq’s poem “Hypermarket - November”. Its...

Sunday Book: Nadeem Aslam - The Golden Legend

Matthew Wright Sunday, 01 January 2017

Elegant literary romance and contemporary jihadism are unlikely bedfellows. Yet British-Pakistani novelist Nadeem Aslam has now written a third novel combining the two. While The...

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