Category Opinion

Why are so many French people convinced that a political unknown named Lucie Castets should be appointed the new prime minister of France, asks John Lichfield. Advertisement She was the obvious choice all along. Why had no one thought of…

“You fall down here in Kingsboro, Ohio, you’re in good company,” says Brock, the narrator of Charles Baxter’s new novel, “Blood Test.” True enough, a lot of things are going sideways for Brock and those around him in this fictional…