Men of Letters
Book reviews of The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Jenny Hartley and P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, edited by Sophie Ratcliffe
Prescribed Reading
Book review of You Can’t Read this Book by Nick Cohen
Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggars Both
Book reviews of Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters translated & edited by Michael Hofmann and Three Lives, a Biography of Stefan Zweig by
The Precision Portraitist
Johan Zoffany’s art enjoyed only a brief vogue, but the RA’s show displays all his technical brilliance
Stalin’s Retreat
British leaders should apply the lesson of Churchill's firm resistance to a belligerent Stalin when dealing with the Kremlin
No More Shrinking
There are many reasons for a dearth of women in the upper echelons of the media, but female writers first have to toughen up
An Insult to Ike
Frank Gehry's $100 million memorial to Dwight Eisenhower isn't just an ugly monstrosity, but a gargantuan folly funded by the taxpayer
Obama v Madison
Obama's edict that religious organisations must contribute to birth control has wantonly undermined the sanctity of religious conscience