Imagine this unlikely scenario: the President of the United States of America is a charlatan; he talks a lot, or rather blusters along, boosting himself as he goes; and eventually he declares war on ...

During protests in the US in the middle of 2020, a Predator drone circled in the sky above Minneapolis. Some 20,000ft below, the cops got to play with their toys: Humvees, armoured carriers with ...

The forty-two essays that Tom McAllister wrote for this book began as an attempt to unshackle himself from social media and its brain-rotting effects. He set strict parameters: one essay for every ...

What a peculiar book this is. Peter York, best known for his cod-anthropological examin­ation of British society’s various snobby tribes, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), has turned his ...

Amanda Knox’s first memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, was published in 2013, just as her retrial for the murder of twenty-one-year-old Meredith Kercher was taking place in Italy. Her second memoir, Free: ...

The hegemony of the United States in the Americas – part of the “greatness” Donald Trump is so anxious to shore up or retrieve – has been a brief and surprising phenomenon. For observers who consider ...

Natalie Lawrence believes in monsters. In her latest book, Enchanted Creatures, she contends that “they are not imaginary: their forms are fanciful, but what they are is very real”. While she admits ...

In 1664, as part of the Anglo–Dutch wars, the Dutch colonial island of Manhattan in America was yielded to England. Closely following the actions of the beleaguered citizens, a moment previously ...

Most of us would rather not think about death – our own or that of others. It is one of the most invisible, suppressed, negated and denied facts of life. Yet it will eventually and inevitably catch up ...