Let there be lights, camera, action! (But not too much action)
There are many signs that Christian entertainment is having a moment. But the biggest one is the beards, which are everywhere...
Meet Generation Alpha
WHAT COMES after Z? Lots of names have been pitched for the world’s youngest generation, born roughly since 2010. Some are pr...
The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
Righting Wrongs. By Kenneth Roth. Knopf; 448 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £30 A doctor in Syria under Bashar al-Assad was forced t...
The best- or worst-timed book in history
The Technological Republic. By Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. Crown Currency; 320 pages; $30. Bodley Head; £25 “SILICON...
Orwell, Kafka, Keller:a new book taps a dystopian-fiction boom
The Dream Hotel. By Laila Lalami. Pantheon; 336 pages; $29. Bloomsbury; £16.99 HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-...
Orwell, Kafka, Heller:a new book taps a dystopian-fiction boom
The Dream Hotel. By Laila Lalami. Pantheon; 336 pages; $29. Bloomsbury; £16.99 HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-...
A new novel is published amid a boom in dystopian fiction
The Dream Hotel. By Laila Lalami. Pantheon; 336 pages; $29. Bloomsbury; £16.99 HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:novelist or polemicist?
Dream Count. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Knopf; 416 pages; $32. Fourth Estate; £20 Can you be a good polemicist and a good n...
Prisoner swaps are controversial, but there are sure to be more
Russia’s Man of War. By Cathy Scott-Clark. Hurst; 424 pages; $34.99 and £25 ONE OF THE stranger diplomatic scenes took place ...
Surreal “Severance” brilliantly captures the reality of office life
Every morning you heave on your armour and steel yourself for the office. The real you is in there somewhere, but in disguise...