Salad Days and Egyptian Nights
Peter Stothard’s lifelong ambition was to write a biography of Cleopatra. The charming result says as much about the author as it does about
Treacherous Path to Safety
Cruel Crossing charts the history of the escape routes in the Pyrenees used by Spanish republican, then French Jewish refugees. It is a thoughtful
Clear Prose of Shining Brilliance
In her latest collection of essays, the New Yorker staff writer Janet Malcolm is at her empathetic, clever, shining best
Is This the Great Italian Novel?
The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza has been hailed as the Great Italian Novel. If this is the greatest, then how dull must
A Right Way to Live and Die
James Salter is seeing something of a renaissance of late. His elegantly written Collected Stories confirms him as a writer of moving and humane
From Kitsch to Cool: Picasso and Modern Art
Marxist art historians cherish his Cubism, but he later became a true artist, not just a modernist
Erdogan’s Folly
For the neo-Ottoman Turkish Prime Minister, the project for Gezi Park is an iconic step towards the return of a muscular Islamic state
Rude Britannia II
The incompetence of the UK Border Agency has cost me thousands and, ultimately, seen me deported. Even their own staff concede they don’t know