16 saturday review Saturday September 26 2026 | THE TIMES books TR Bondisback ...1s he a snowflake? Today’s 007 likes Lana Del Rey. Plus, Sara Paretsky has a new hero. By James Owen King Zero by Charlie Higson Michael Joseph £22 pp4l6 While the wait for the new screen James Bond goes on, Charlie Higson is back with his latest contemporary 007 adventure. Higson has form as the author of the Young B…
Ambitious parents and flunking kids The writer of Pachinko is back wih another family saga — it’s impressive but bloated. By John Self ttakes some brass neck to title your novel with a word most readers will i never have heard of, but perhaps Min pad epi von Jin Lee has earned the right. The w Korean-American novelist’ previous | 4th Estate £25 pp656 book, Pachinko (2017) — which pulled off the sa…
When tech turned on democracy Gil Duran makes the case for why a group of oligarchs are readying for a libertarian future. By Henry Mance here is now a gallery of bools criticising the tech industry and its oligarchs. Gil Duran’s stands out for having the most darkly amusing title. With the equally blunt if less humorous subtitle Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, The Nerd Reich make…
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BOOKS ‘Since baseball time is measured only in outs . . . keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. —rocer ANGELL It’s All About the Players By Peter Gammons Grand Central, 368 pages, $32.50 By Jack McCALLUM OR THREE DECADES beginning in 1972, baseball fans in New England (and points beyond) designed their Sunday mornings around the writ- ings of Peter Gammons. The Boston Glo…
10_saturday review books An Inspiring man — and IN Some ways, Not a nice one 00k of the week The physicist Stephen Hawking did dazzling work in the shadow of death. He also left his wife for his nurse. By Tom Whipple Hawking His Life and Work by Graham Farmelo John Murray £30 pP6O8. hat I remember now is the sound of the medical equipment. The hum of the wheelchair. ‘The awkwardness to be around a…
A creature of hobbits t's easy to make the case that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is the most consequential English novelist of the 20th century. In spite of elite contempt — “for children, isn't it? Or the adult slow” sniffed novelist Howard Jacobson — and its absence from the school syllabus, The Lord of the Rings regularly tops reader polls of the greatest ever novel. Beyond its extraordinary fina…
When theory rubs up against everyday life Ld RAR NTR i ECONOMICS By Tej Parikh n The Power to Destroy: How Bad Economics Drove America’s Decline, (University of Chicago Press £24/$30), James K Galbraith argues that an over-reliance on outdated ideas in economics has led to bad decisions by US policymakers. The American economist provides a detailed analysis of recent challenges — from the post-pan…
The Booker Prize for fiction From a post-apocalyptic fale on the Kent coast to a meditation on the power of secrefs, here are our critics’ verdicts on four of the six works in the running for this year's Booker Prize. The winner will be announced on November 9. Scan the OR code or go toft.com/booker2026 When tech turned on democracy Gil Duran makes the case for why a group of oligarchs are readyin…
here was always pressure on women to turn from fic- tion to the appallingly named ‘autofiction’, with its hints of the autoerotic,” claims the narrator of Naomi Alder- man’s new book The Strangers. Yet despite her denial of any “auto” label, this narrator also happens to be a suc- cessful writer named Naomi Alderman. Fans of Alderman’s bestselling novels such as 2016's Women's Prize-winning The Po…
