Trials of Windsor Life
Book review of The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney
Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggars Both
Book reviews of Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters translated & edited by Michael Hofmann and Three Lives, a Biography of Stefan Zweig by Oliver Matuschek, translated by Allan Blunden
Queen who Let Daylight in on Royal Magic
Book review of Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Anne Somerset
Prescribed Reading
Book review of You Can’t Read this Book by Nick Cohen
Philosophy as Confession
Book review of Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory by Stanley Cavell
Not All Roads Lead to Rome
Book review of The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
Enjoy the analysis, ignore the advice
Piketty's commitment to rational informed debate is laudable, but his remedies for inequality are not
When a Marxist Loses His Charm
The uruguayan Eduardo Galeano was once the author of elegant and charming journalism. Sadly, his new book is a dumbed-down travesty
Nourishment by the Gross
Big Brother is Lionel Shriver at her cold-eyed best; a nourishing helping of fearless, humane and sober prose
Death’s Heads
Christian Ingrao's analysis of university-educated SS members is dense but compelling, drawing blurred lines that demarcate good and evil