Even Men Of Ideas Are Mortal
The philosopher Bryan Magee offers up his ultimate philosophical reflections
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
An Editor Ahead Of His Time
David Astor was the man who made the Observer the most popular Sunday paper of its time
Not Too Tricky To Be Ike’s Veep
The President And The Apprentice is an intriguingly contrarian retelling of the story of Nixon and the Eisenhower presidency
Clearing The Fog Of War
Tim Judah's In Wartime provides a first-hand picture of what is happening on the ground in Ukraine
But Have They Starved?
The Prose Factory is a spirited dash through British literary history — and the many ways writers have struggled to pay their bills
The Value Of Victoria
Paula Bartley's biography of Queen Victoria, based on the monarch's letters and journals, brings out surprising contradictions
Comrade Peter Pan
Is the unlikeliest Labour leader a ruthless operator or an idealist whose views never really grew up?
Benn: Bomb Or Bust?
Hilary Benn is about to face his moment of truth
Conservative Capers
How American politics became polarised
Home Discomforts
Throughout literature, supernatural creatures have a way of disturbing safe havens
Rhodes, Race, And The Abuse Of History
The Rhodes Must Fall campaign which divided Oxford was built on a misunderstanding of the past and a manipulation of the truth
Music, Terror, Garlic Amulets
Julian Barnes's 'The Noise of Time'