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Robert Low

Perils of paying off the pirates
Kidnapping remains a lucrative business. Anja Shortland's new book examines how and where it thrives
Robert Low

Brexit bolters
Where are Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and George Osborne? It was as if they couldn’t wait to leave Parliament, having got what they could out of the system, with no thought of putting something back
Robert Low

Odds against life after the final whistle
Despite the demise of the doyen of British sportswriters, reports of the demise of  sports journalism have surely been exaggerated — for now
Robert Low

The man who went off script
In her lively and readable biography, Adina Hoffman charts Ben Hecht’s progress from America’s most successful screenwriter to Jewish activist
Robert Low

Overrated: Ian Hislop
The editor of Private Eye, once Britain’s leading satirical magazine, is no dissenter but a key member of the establishment
Robert Low

The gentleman and the player
For many, Swanton and Arlott embodied the soul of cricket themselves
Robert Low

Exodus the world ignored
Lyn Julius's Uprooted is an authoritative history of the decline and virtual end of Jewish life in the Arab world
Robert Low

Publish and be damned

Blake Morrison's new novel on a literary executor's tussle over a poet's posthumous publication

Robert Low

End of the affair
Hilary Spurling's biography of Anthony Powell contains a surprising revelation: that Powell's wife had an affair during the Second World War
Robert Low

Not so fast, Nick
Nick Clegg's new book How To Stop Brexit is shrill and bitter, and neglects to mention that his advocacy of the EU has been personally lucrative
Robert Low

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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