Part memoir, part history, "Rural" explores a neglected side of working-class life in Britain
Martha Hodes' story of the 1970 hijackings by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is also a study on memory
David Baddiel's account of his personal journey away from faith is witty and thought-provoking
A fascinating, haunting book on the young boy who was "stolen" by the British, along with Ethiopia's treasures
Jacob Bloomfield's new book, "Drag: A British History", is an excellent introduction to the complexities of drag as “a queer art form”
Suella Braverman is the latest politician to weaponise the term "ivory tower", but the idea has been around at least since the seventeenth century
Ann-Helén Laestadius' novel is a sometimes shocking account of the persecution faced by the Sámi people and their resistance
The politics of art: In 2020, amid the #BlackLivesMatter protests, it was Guston's representations of the white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan that caused controversy. But in his own day, it was his rejection of abstraction that led to him being shunned from the New York art scene
A new wave of dramas based around food make for tantalising television, but they risk leaving us hungry for more
First published in New Humanist in 1971, Philip Larkin's "This Be The Verse" - with its famous opening line, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad" - has become a cultural phenomenon. But why?