Book reviews

Book reviews

Never Done

By Christine Smallwood,

The impossible work of motherhood

By Joanna Biggs,

Alan Hollinghurst’s break with tradition

By Amia Srinivasan,

The troubling response to a memoir of incest

By Christine Smallwood,

Does fiction matter in a post-fact age?

By Geoff Dyer,

A philosopher’s flat-footed meditations on the beautiful game

By Dayna Tortorici,

Feminist struggles are labor struggles

By Yasmine Seale,

Islam’s forgotten reformation

By Christopher Beha,

Can neuroscience finally explain consciousness?

By Nat Segnit,

The problem with writing manuals

By Gary Greenberg,

The allure of animal nature

By Anne Applebaum,

The rise and fall of the Romanovs