Books
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…
