Did the Earth Move for Galileo?
New books on the great Italian reveal him to have been wiser than many modern scientists
Busy Old Foolery
With advances in technology, we are learning more and more about the way the Sun is developing
How Foes become Mates
The political situation in Russia transformed the sulphurous relationship between Karpov and Kasparov
Writers of the World, Unite
Politics and the Novel During the Cold War by David Caute
Perplexed of St. John’s Wood
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Labour’s Tory Boy
A Journey by Tony Blair
Eastern Questions
Crimea: The Last Crusade by Orlando Figes
The State of the State
The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life by Kenneth Minogue
Mao’s Little Helpers
The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s by Richard Wolin
The German Question
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson; Fame by Daniel Kehlmann; The Box by Günter Grass; and Portrait of the Mother as