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
Smoke on the Water
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman
Mentioned in Dispatches
Letters from London and Europe by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, tranlated by J. G. Nichols
All About Himself
La Carte et le Territoire by Michel Houellebecq
ONLINE Only: Defending the Birmingham Three
Just weeks ahead of Benedict XVI's visit, the Birmingham Oratory is guilty of profound institutional cruelty in its treatment of three banished former members
Bishkek: Downfall of a Dictator
Whilst travelling through Kyrgyzstan, our correspondent found himself witness to a brutal and bloodsoaked coup
Come Back, Trollope
Westminster's current inhabitants are perfect fodder for a great political satirist, if only we had one