Book Reviews

THE DARKEST WHITE: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him, by Eric BlehmI have no shame in admitting to neither a scintilla of knowledge of, nor any potential...

A GREAT DISORDER: National Myth and the Battle for America, by Richard Slotkin“A patriot is not a weapon,” Adrienne Rich wrote in a 1991 poem. “A patriot is one who...

AMBITION MONSTER: A Memoir, by Jennifer RomoliniThis spring, the website LitHub published an essay about the lack of financial particulars in contemporary fiction. That piece stayed in my head as...

GREAT EXPECTATIONS, by Vinson CunninghamAs much as I pretend that I’m too conscientious, too emancipated, too Black and mostly just too lazy to succumb to a cult, the aesthetic choices...

It was indeed a “normal” election in that respect, responding not least to the outburst of “normal” politics with which Hitler had littered his program: he had, in the months...

Does “The Blues Brothers” deserve a book? In the pantheon of gloriously dumb movie comedies derived from “Saturday Night Live” and the National Lampoon, the 1980 John Belushi-Dan Aykroyd R&B...

THE ENIGMA GIRLS: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets and Helped Win World War II, by Candace FlemingAs war raged in Europe in 1941, Sarah Norton, the 18-year-old daughter...

SOCIOPATH: A Memoir, by Patric GagneThat Patric Gagne is a sociopath isn’t news. She wrote about it for The New York Times’s Modern Love column, which led to a deal...

To mark the 70th anniversary of the sub-four-minute mile, a new book on Roger Bannister’s life is packed with great info and images, plus we look at ‘Don’t Crush the...

Reviewed this month: The Shame Archive by Oliver Harris; The Mercy Chair by MW Craven; This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter; and Storm Child by Michael Robotham Clockwise...