Robert McCrum

Jan 21, 2025 | the-independent.com | Laurence Rees |Simon Calder |Robert McCrum

mccrum on booksIn his new book, the acclaimed historian of the Nazis, Laurence Rees, takes a forensic look at how the authoritarian regime rose to power and the ordinary citizens who let it happen. Nine of the 12 warnings already strike a chord, says Robert McCrum, and in the age of Trump 2.0, it is compulsive readingThe British fascination with the tyrannies of sinister, evil, and possibly mad foreign dictators is a tale we love to tell.

Dec 6, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Robert McCrum

McCrum on BooksThis year’s Booker Prize winner ‘Orbital’ by Samantha Harvey is markedly short but there is one reason it stands as a novel and not a novella, says Robert McCrum, and is proof of what it takes for pocket fiction to hold its own against longer tomesWhen Orbital, a tale of some 136 pages, by Samantha Harvey, the 2024 Booker Prize winner, landed on my desk, my first thought was for an old friend, an acclaimed English writer, now in the twilight of his career.

Dec 2, 2024 | msn.com | Geordie Greig |Jessie Thompson |Katie Rosseinsky |Victoria Richards |Robert McCrum

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Dec 2, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Geordie Greig |Jessie Thompson |Katie Rosseinsky |Victoria Richards |Robert McCrum

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

Dec 2, 2024 | everand.com | Geordie Greig |Jessie Thompson |Katie Rosseinsky |Victoria Richards |Robert McCrum

Books are the best kind of Christmas present, and we don’t want to argue about it. When you give someone you love an unputdownable novel, a juicy biography, a captivating history book or a set of letters or poems, what you are also giving is hours and hours of pleasure. That’s why five of us writers are sharing our top five suggestions for great books to give as gifts this Christmas.