Books
The politics of bookshelves
You can’t say that, you can’t read that, you can’t think that — a mantra which closes down discussion
Why men don’t read books anymore
Lockdown has been more illustrative of the gender gap in reading than any event I can remember
The lockdown list: books to read during quarantine
Daily reading recommendations from The Spectator’s writers and editors
Some of the best Austen adaptations are the most unfaithful
Undoubtedly the freshest version of Emma was the one that looks least like it: Clueless
Why do we write dedications in books?
These ghostly remnants of love, loss and friendship tell stories of their own
The Spectator USA guide to book curation
Gwyneth Paltrow has a book curator – now you can too!
The poetry of motels
A new book of photographs documents this fallen world that helped to usher in the sexual revolution
‘Come on, cancel me’: An interview with Bret Easton Ellis
The American Psycho author is back – and still causing controversy
Would any publisher dare to print Lolita now?
Publishers are so scared of the Twitter mob that Nabokov’s classic would probably end up on the slush pile
‘Lock him in a motel and he’d do something astonishing’: Hockney on the genius of Van Gogh
David Hockney explains what makes the Dutch artist’s drawings such a joy
Amos Oz, a giant of Israeli literature and politics
In Oz’s novels, the materiality of politics dominates the waking day, and the dreams and nightmares of literature the sleepless nights
Why is the New York Times recommending anti-Semitic conspiracy theories?
They let Alice Walker plug a David Icke book
Exclusive: the eagerly anticipated (or not) Trump-era memoirs of 2019
Trump White House memoirs are rolling off the presses. Let’s imagine the ones yet to come
The people have not forgotten me: the exiled Empress of Iran interviewed
The widow of the Shah of Iran was painted by Warhol and assembled the greatest collection of art outside of Europe
Spectator USA’s Books of the Year 2018
What our writers have been reading this year
The artist who breathes Technicolor life into historic photographs
‘My goal is to build a bridge between the present and the past.’
His dark materials
In this giant, prodigiously sourced and insightful biography, John A. Farrell shows how Richard Milhous Nixon was the nightmare of…
