Books

The manosphere’s literary muscle men

Two novels explore the crippling solitude of a pair of ripped English professors

Latest in Books

The biographer of England’s great poets reveals the secrets of inhabiting his subjects’ lives

By John Phipps

The author’s autofictional account of Covid and its after-effects, Will There Ever Be Another You, confirms her place as a…

By Joseph Williams

In What We Can Know, Britain has sunk beneath the waves – but literature remains buoyant

By Christopher Tayler

Six international authors compete for the high prize of English-language novels

By Tanjil Rashid, Zuzanna Lachendro and George Monaghan

All the Way to the River is self-indulgent and shameless – like all good memoirs

By Lily Isaacs

A new non-fiction book reveals the fascinating forays into how pets shape politics

By Rachel Cunliffe

Stephen Greenblatt’s attempt to reconstruct the playwright’s story is brilliant – but Marlowe the man remains a mystery

By John Mullan