The Politics of Envy
That Howard Jacobson and V. S. Naipaul are non-members of the London literary establishment does them credit
Super Mario
A brilliant writer with remarkable political gifts, Mario Vargas Llosa is a worthy winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Hegemony 101
Antonio Gramsci's great theory has cropped up in an unlikely place — the A-level geography classroom
Ethics Girl
A bookshelf of Tracey Emin's personal favourites throws up a notable surprise
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