Review: Behind Her Eyes, by Sarah Pinborough
For anyone looking for a version of Gone Girl set in North London, this is not the book for you. Or maybe it is — the first half, I mean. Because this a clever book…
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I am running for a seat on the Executive Committee of Democrats Abroad UK
This is my candidate statement: When I launched the Bernie Sanders campaign in the U.K. in July 2015 – at the Independence Day picnic of Democrats Abroad in Portman Square – I had no idea…
Review: The Socialist Party of America, by David A. Shannon
This book, written in 1955, is essential reading today for anyone interested in democratic socialism. Democratic Socialists of America, one of the successor organizations of the Socialist Party, is now nearing 100,000 members. For that…
Review: So You Want to Publish a Book? by Anne Trubek
As someone who both writes and publishes books, I was keen to read a well-reviewed, short text aimed at people like myself. I was not disappointed. This is a clear, well-written introduction to the world…
Review: From the Red Army to SOE, by Major L H Manderstam with Roy Heron
Let me begin by saying that Major L H Manderstam is not someone I’d want to invite over for dinner. This memoir, published in 1985 shortly after the author’s death, is full of obnoxious racist…
Review: Jews Don’t Count, by David Baddiel
This is a brilliant book and I encourage all my non-Jewish friends to read it. My Jewish friends will not need to read it because what Baddiel writes — and he writes really well —…
Review: Slough House, by Mick Herron
This, the seventh book in the Jackson Lamb series, does not disappoint. I imagine most everyone who reads it has already devoured the previous six books. For us, the return of Lamb and his “slow…
100 years on, the Georgian experiment remains relevant
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Georgia in February 1921. This is significant today, and not only for Georgians and Russians. Back in 1921, Georgia was ruled by the Social…
Review: The Case for Keto: The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating, by Gary Taubes
Nearly twenty years ago, science journalist Gary Taubes wrote an article for the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times reporting that some eminent scientists were beginning to re-think the conventional view about why…
Kennedy, not Johnson, led the US into the quagmire
This letter was published in the February 2021 issue of Literary Review. In his otherwise excellent review of The Tyranny of Merit (LR, December 2020 – January 2021), Andrew Adonis challenges Michael J. Sandel’s statement…