Jolly Bad Taste vs. feeble Good Taste
Sir Les Patterson or Poundbury, Roy Wood or Richard Rogers, dodgy clubs or lusty yeomen?
The girlhood of Philip Larkin
The key to the poet’s early obsession with girls’-school stories may lie with his sister Kitty
Alan Greenspan’s bubble deflated
"Alan Greenspan was a good Fed chairman, but his reputation was grossly over-inflated"
Don’t worry, be wealthy
Paul Dolan's Happy Ever After frustratingly fails to address obvious questions about our idea of happiness
Goodbye to all that
A charming and engaging memoir of a world long gone
Powerful stuff: I can’t wait for the sequel
The novel in verse is nothing new, but Homer's Iliad is fast-paced and full of surprises
The Doctor’s infinite wisdom
"Samuel Johnson's Rasselas is calculated to destroy the illusions of dreamers"
Hungary’s Tolstoy
Miklós Bánffy's Transylvanian Trilogy is full of exceptional richness, character and colour
Masterpiece — or male and stale?
Once venerated as the founders of Western art, the Old Masters are losing their allure
Civilisation made concrete
The ancient Assyrians deserve to be remembered for being pioneering builders and engineers