Valerie Grove
You Must Remember This
“Whenever I crop up in someone’s reminiscences, I find their memory irritatingly fallible”
Laurie Lee’s Ladies
Uncovering the truth from the author’s legend
Unhappy Families
Completion is a dazzling debut by a promising young novelist
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?