Bret Easton Ellis’s comeback is a bloody masterpiece
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis reviewed
Book review
Wednesday
Quentin Tarantino’s iconoclastic obsessions
How can an established artist, especially one this famous, pivot to criticism?
The struggle of the female musician
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad reviewed
Tuesday
Stephen Amidon’s day of the locust
A new novel explores the lengths communities will go to protect their own
Bob Dylan’s tower of song
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan reviewed
Was the Queen Mother ever really funny?
Do Let’s Have Another Drink!: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Gareth Russell reviewed
Monday
The return of Cormac McCarthy
Arguably America’s greatest living novelist is back with two novels
Friday
Warning: this book may make you like Bono
Surrender is full of wry asides on fame, faith and self-flagellation
Sunday
The prodigal daughter
Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead reviewed
Nick Cave’s musings on life, death and creativity
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan reviewed
The bookish life of John Carey
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey reviewed
Living one’s best life
It helps to have a soft spot for life-wisdom books
A comedian explains how to quit social media
James Acaster has not stopped exploring where he might want to go
Wednesday
Alan Rickman and the misery of being famous
He was an in-demand movie star yet it seemed to bring him only stress and unhappiness
Tuesday
Bob Dylan, the song and dance man
A new biography captures his entire world
Exploring the decline of Britain’s birds
Patrick Galbraith’s latest goes searching for kittiwakes and grouses
The Soviets brought far from home
Kilometer 101 explores political undesirables who were exiled from Moscow
A haunting novel remembers 1990s Ukraine
Explored commonalities between Ukraine and Russia have since erupted into war
Saturday
No stone unturned
Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, has written a very bad book
Tuesday
Porn again
There’s no reconciling the clash between the sex positivity movement and chastity
