High-Minded Or Hot Air?
At times in Levels of Life, Julian Barnes at his dizzying best—it is writing from his informed, proud and devoted heart
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Past Times of a Present Master
Underrated American author James Salter's latest novel, at its best, evokes Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Tolstoy
Vlad the Virtuoso
Vladimir Kramnik best games display a fusion of elegance and force that give the impression that this is as well as chess could be played
Jerusalem the Golden
Teacher, philanthropist, founder of the Royal College of Music — Sir Hubert Parry was so much more than a composer of England's finest songs
At Home with the Letwins’ Salon
Bill and Shirley Letwin kept open house for open minds from Chicago to Cambridge and Hampstead
Lords of the Prairie
George Catlin both recorded and idealised the vanquished native Indian tribes of North America
Reader Competition: Design the “Civilisation Cocktail”
The winning drink will be served at the inaugural Standpoint salon
Life with Father
Sports-pages-stalwart Roger Mortimer's writing has been resurrected with the publication of letters to his children