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JD Vance announces a new memoir about his conversion to Catholicism
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (255+ words) The vice-president’s follow-up to Hillbilly Elegy is announced as speculation builds over a 2028 run to succeed Trump US vice-president JD Vance has announced a new memoir centred on his conversion to Catholicism, adding to mounting speculation about a potential 2028 presidential…...
Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (1419+ words) The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account In the early 17th century, the Peruvian city of Potosí billed itself as the “treasure of the world” and “envy of kings”. Sprouting at the…...
Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross review – portrait of a Python
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (849+ words) An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World WarTerry Jones was a Python, a historian, a bestselling children’s author and a very naughty boy. He loved to play women in drag,…...
‘They disappeared when the wall came down’: German author Jenny Erpenbeck on the objects that contain vast histories
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (220+ words) From the drip catchers of coffee pots to the typewriter she used for her first works, the International Booker prize-winning writer reflects on the hidden significance of everyday items Drip catcherThe carpet hangers disappeared from the rear courtyards when wall-to-wall…...
The Internet Has A Lot To Say About These 4 Brutal Revelations From Kamala Harris's New Book
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (237+ words) "That came as a surprise to us." From the book (via The Atlantic): Harris writes that Buttigieg "would have been an ideal candidate — if I were a straight white man." She later adds, "Part of me wanted to say, Screw…...
Nick Harkaway: ‘I loathed Charles Dickens – it nearly turned me off reading for ever’
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (470+ words) The author on his secret theories about Tolkien, the most perfect and terrifying Moomin book, and how his father, John le Carré, inspired him My earliest reading memory I read The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien at seven,…...
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan review – the limits of liberalism
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (1179+ words) A century from now, a literature scholar pieces together a picture of our times in a novel that quietly compels us to consider the moral consequences of global catastropheThe sheer Englishness of Ian McEwan’s fiction may not be fully visible…...