BOOKS
April 2013
Two recently translated European novellas, by Sophie Divry and Brigit Vanderbeke, are wonderful examples of this short literary form
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
March 2013
Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Life of Gabriele D'Annunzio paints a picture of a compelling and anarchic poet-statesman
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
March 2013
Robert A. Ventresca's attempt to dispassionately assess the divisive Pope Pius XVII's pontificate is well-meaning but a penance to read
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
March 2013
The cult of Benjamin Britten lives on in Paul Kildea's new biography, painting the composer as a perennial victim
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
More Civilisation
More content
- Pyongyang's Ballistic Bluff
- When a Marxist Loses His Charm
- Friends and Saints: Newman's Last Mystery
- Underrated: Martin Gilbert
- ONLINE ONLY: Put out More Flags
- Deadly Possibilities
- German Hysteria
- Russia's Teetering Toughman
- Don't Go to Art School if you Want to Learn to Paint
- A Girl's Best Friend
- Hidden Sanctuary Of Byzantine Art
- The Sublime and the Beautiful
- Transatlantic Vanity Project
- Bail-out Bunkum
- Can Science Replace Religion In Our Lives?
- Literary Biography is on Life Support
- The Few Who Rule The Many
- Lessons From History
- Will the Tories Give us the Schools We Deserve?
- How To Defeat The Global Jihadists
Popular Standpoint topics
- The Beige of Beijing
- Forget 'Islamophobia'. Let's Tackle Islamism
- ONLINE ONLY: Academic Boycotts Teach Us Nothing
- The Family is the Key to the Future of Faith
- At Last: Gove Goes For the Culture of Excuses
- Feminism Or Islamism: Which Side Are You On?
- Here Lie the Remains of Tory Modernisation
- Cameron's Too Late To Tame the UKIP Tiger
- The Beige of Beijing
- Forget 'Islamophobia'. Let's Tackle Islamism
- ONLINE ONLY: Academic Boycotts Teach Us Nothing
- The Family is the Key to the Future of Faith
- At Last: Gove Goes For the Culture of Excuses
- Feminism Or Islamism: Which Side Are You On?
- Here Lie the Remains of Tory Modernisation
- Cameron's Too Late To Tame the UKIP Tiger
- Was Crucifixion a Jewish Penalty?
- Feminism Or Islamism: Which Side Are You On?
- Warning Notes
- Pope Frank: In the Footsteps of St Francis
- We Abandon Christians in the East At Our Peril
- The Family is the Key to the Future of Faith
- Have You Heard the One About Auschwitz?
- Forget 'Islamophobia'. Let's Tackle Islamism
- Forget 'Islamophobia'. Let's Tackle Islamism
- Neoconservatism: A Good Idea That Won't Go Away
- Hapless Hollande’s French Farce Flops
- A Party Overrun by Lads and Libertines
- Here Lie the Remains of Tory Modernisation
- Riot of Spring
- ONLINE ONLY: Sharia Threatens All Women, Muslim and Non-Muslim
- The Myth of Cameron's Etonian 'Chumocracy'