The Drumming of an Army
The Australian floods were encapsulated by underrated national poet, Dorothea Mackellar, whose poem "My Country" best captured the post-diluvian mood
Is China Really a Threat to us?
Dambisa Moyo, author of How the West was Lost, and Niall Ferguson, author of Civilization: The West and the Rest, discuss the Eastern challenge
A Turkish Delight
Book review of Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone
Not All Roads Lead to Rome
Book review of The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
Promise and Redemption
Book review of Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Philosophy as Confession
Book review of Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory by Stanley Cavell
Family Values
Book review of Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball
The Old Lady Lifts Her Skirts
Book review of The Bank of England: 1950s to 1979 by Forrest Capie