Robert Low
Outward Bound
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
How to Play the Game
In sport, it’s not just knowing how to lose that’s important, it’s also knowing how to win
Birds of a Feather
Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce by Sarah A. Stein
The Bread with the Hole
The Bagel by Maria Balinska
Blaming the Parents
The Believers by Zoë Heller
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?