Robert Low
Ethics Girl
A bookshelf of Tracey Emin’s personal favourites throws up a notable surprise
Perplexed of St. John’s Wood
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Worth the Wait
My mother, at the age of 100, may feel enfranchised at last
Fading Glitter
Final Demands by Frederic Raphael
Idée fixe
Fiction portentously predicts reality in Anthony Trollope’s dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia
What Daddy Did in the War
Papa Spy by Jimmy Burns
Last Post
Do the Post Office’s problems signal a return to the old privatisation debate?
Repaying a Debt
The journalist Jeff Randall is heading a campaign to set up a Chair in Jewish Studies at Nottingham University
Creeping Insanity
Cockroach by Rawi Hage
Highway Code
On Roads: A Hidden History by Joe Moran
Only Congress can tame Beijing’s bloody instincts
Hong Kong’s struggle for freedom is inspirational. But outsiders must help by challenging police violence
Doomed by data, our new Trojan Horse
“Data, like the jungle, is neutral. But its users are not.”
The riddle of the car bomb and the lucky gambler
Investigating the assassination of a Maltese journalist has been a masterclass in legal ping-pong