Blood and Lies Behind the Iron Curtain
Anne Applebaum's magisterial Iron Curtain tells the largely untold story of Eastern Europe's suppression at the hands of the Soviets after the Second World War
The Master in Miami
Tom Wolfe isn't at his best for all of Back to Blood, but at his best he's the finest novelist working today
The Fate Of A Forgotten Ally
Halik Kochanski's magisterial work on the cruel and chaotic legacy of World War II in Poland is history at its best
The Dreyfus Affair Of Our Age
Salman Rushdie's account of the life under a fatwa highlights the moral cowardice of establishment figures of the Left and the Right
Genius at Work
Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times by William E. Wallace
Encounter with the Sacred Realm
"I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my
Why Was There No Holy Roman Project?
Brendan Simms's new epic history of Europe is an earnest and old-fashioned of great power rivalries
Past Times of a Present Master
Underrated American author James Salter's latest novel, at its best, evokes Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Tolstoy
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
Constitutional Ignoramus
In attempting to answer his question Why Tolerate Religion, Chicago philosopher Brian Leiter wilfully neglects the impact of the Judaeo-Christian tradition on Western civilisation