book review
Ian Rankin’s best mystery novel yet
Book review: Even Dogs In the Wild, by Ian Rankin
A rollicking history of comedy in America
Book review: The Comedians, by Kliph Nesteroff
An anarchist dog-walker on working for the one per cent
Book review: The Dog Walker, by Joshua Stephens
An old-fashioned epic on the rise and fall of empires
Book review: The Gold Eaters, by Ronald Wright and Hamish Hamilton
A Scottish mystery by way of Quebec’s Magdalen Islands
Book review: Entry Island, by Peter May
The kindness of strangers, against all odds
Book review: Strangers drowning, by Larissa MacFarquhar
How we taught America to love the gun
Book review: Arms: the culture and credo of the gun, by A. J. Somerset
How Emperor Ashoka left his life as a conquerer
Book review: Ashoka in Ancient India, by Nayanjot Lahiri
A dazzling portrait of a man gone awry
Book review: Martin John, by Anakana Schofield
An ambitious exposition of marriage
Book review: Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff
Chrissie Hynde, not just a Pretender
Book review: A coming-of-age picaresque, where the important stuff takes place before the rock ’n’ roll day job starts.
Eileen: A protagonist bitter and sweet, twisted and innocent
Book review: Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh