book reviews

William Shatner’s latest book chronicles 50 years of friendship with Leonard Nimoy

’The Wildings’ gives cats some much-needed good press

The Pulitzer-Prize winner writes a memoir about learning Italian

New Yorker writer David Denby chronicles an effort to get young people reading

In The High Mountains Of Portugal, Martel links tales of the dead and the grieving

’Last Futures’ yearns for a time when we used architecture to imagine better futures for everyone, not just paying customers

A history of disputed elections in America reveals a lack of foresight from the nation’s founding fathers

The collected correspondence of Iris Murdoch, the British novelist and philosopher, reveal a life of intellectual and sexual hunger

A compelling memoir from Amy Winehouse’s mother tells her side of a tragic story

Owen Hatherley’s book on why we keep calm and carry on with our fake, troubling nostalgia