Germane Germans
‘Do we still have an intellectual elite that reads, and writers to cater for it? In Germany, we have Merkur’
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Marcus Bleasdale
Formerly a successful investment banker, British photographer Marcus Bleasdale has spent the last ten years documenting conflict and human rights abuses in the Balkans, Djibouti and Darfur. But since his switch to
Game Over
Despite the current success of England's test team, the county game is at an all-time cricketing low. It needs a dramatic overhaul
Russia’s Six-Hit Champion
Russian chess champion Peter Svidler's obsession with English cricket is such that he signs off his emails with "Strauss for Prime Minister"
Things Visible and Invisible
The National Gallery’s new Leonardo show illuminates his quest for painterly perfection
Removing the Neutrino Anomaly
Minkowski enabled Einstein to supersede Newton. Today’s scientists must emulate them
Some of Their Best Friends
Book review of The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England from Cromwell to Churchill by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Grandes Dames who Didn’t Give a Damn
Book review of Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson, New Women in Search of Love and Power by Susan Hertog
Orwellians in Tokyo
Book review of 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Unquiet Flows the Don
Book review of The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo
Alice Through the Masterclass
Book review of New Selected Stories by Alice Munro
What Survives of Him is Love
Philip Larkin's letters to his lover Monica Jones speak of a non-sexual intimacy and chart his progression to poetic maturity