Books
The God that Failed
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
Vocal Heroes
Tenor: History of a Voice by John Potter
Marx’s Capitalist
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
Freaked Out
The Marvelous Hairy Girls by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Outward Bound
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Spring Books: Old Books
Anthony Daniels on the joys of of browsing second-hand bookshops; Christopher Edwards on the life of an antiquarian bookseller
Heart of Bloomsbury
Frances Partridge by Anne Chisholm
Facts: Handle with Care
The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret Macmillan
Agent of his Own Downfall
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Service by Andrew Meier
Days of Doom and Gloom
The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars by Richard Overy
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?