Echoes Of The Elusive English
The essays of Ferdinand Mount offer a conflicted but compelling account of national identity
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The Artist As Connoisseur
Van Dyck, Reynolds and Degas had more than talent in common: they also collected other painters’ work
The Art Of Euphemism
Crofton Black and Edmund Clark's book Negative Publicity, which tracks Bush-era extraordinary renditions through photographs and redacted documents, is a compound of elegant presentation and rough stuff
When Players Become Pawns
Accusations of off-board skulduggery can be a powerful tool of psychological warfare