Brave Old Worlds
Two recently reissued novels by Aldous Huxley confront the reader with stark metaphysical truths
War, Poets, and the Poetry of War
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon should be remembered as soldiers who were brave enough to show us what war was really like
Very Young Ladies and the Tramp
Peter Ackroyd's new biography shows that Charlie Chaplin was an incorrigible womaniser but a brilliant innovator
Rough Justice or Murder?
The Reckoning tells of how Avraham Stern’s death changed the fate of Israel…
The Intellectual of The Masses
John Carey sticks up for 'ordinary life' in his memoir The Unexpected Professor
Transatlantic Vanity Project
Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein's published correspondence is a phoney exercise in literary bitchiness and mutual back-slapping
The Moneybags and the Brains
The Bretton Woods conference of 1944 saw a historic meeting of economists that changed the world forever
Monstrosities of a Vile Victorian
Linda Stratmann's attempt to exculpate the Marquess of Queensberry of his myriad sins is a misguided stab at rescuing a the reputation of a truly wretched man
Wise Beyond Her Years
Book review of The Innocents by Francesca Segal
Homage to the Spanish
Book review of The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston