After Strange Gods
Review of Treason of the Heart: From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby by David Pryce-Jones
False Dawn of Revolution
Book review of Beacon for Change: How the 1951 Festival of Britain Shaped the Modern Age by Barry Turner
Outsider’s Insight
Book review of The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Artistic Suffering
Book review of At Last by Edward St Aubyn
A Different Habit of Vision
The short-lived Vorticist movement was ridiculed in its day. Now it seems brave and prescient
Hullabaloo in the Great Karoo
South Africa’s desert is a battleground between astronomers and gas companies
A Monstrous Waste
Bobby Fischer was a chess phenomenon who squandered his talent. But we should remember the talent
American Dreaming
‘I only discovered both how much I was missing New York and what was irritating me about Berlin when I visited Manhattan in the