Poetic Justice
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008 and The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James
The Fog of War Lifts on Waterloo
Two new and remarkable books prove how Waterloo will continue to divide historians for centuries
Two Men Who Mean Business
The economics ideas of two successful entrepeneurs — one Tory, one Labour
Kind Hearts And Couplets
Two poets show that fierce emotion is not restricted by rhyme or meter
A Master, But Not His Masterpiece
Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel is an entertaining tale of blackmail and family warfare — but is not up to the standard of his best
Washington Blame Game
Was the journalist Judith Miller's bad intelligence to blame for the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
Unturbulent Priest
The memoirs of Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor
Hard Lessons of Afghan History
Two new histories of separate conflicts in Afghanistan show that both the Victorians and a young Churchill struggled at the North-Western Frontier
Bearing Witness
Sarah Helm's powerful "biography" of Ravensbruck gathers vital testimony from the camp's survivors
Sketches By Bozzy
The youthful indiscretions of Johnson's biographer
The Erotic Inferno
Book review of Dante in Love by A.N. Wilson
Star-crossed Purposes
Book review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama