No Place Like Rome
Surviving by Allan Massie
From Job to the Enlightenment
Susan Neiman’s reading of the Enlightenment is certainly distinctive, but also offers a courageous and uplifting attempt to tell the story as it is
Chopin as prophet
The Pianist, based on Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoirs and reimagined in words and music by the Russian pianist Mikhail Rudy, has been enjoying a two-week
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The usual hotchpotch at the RA Summer Exhibition and some awful Americana from Charles Saatchi
To One War, 55 Marks
This year’s war on expenses is nothing compared to the one started in 1939 – World War II In this world nothing can be
United States: The Path to Rome via San Francisco
‘In the 1950s, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene wrote triumphalist Catholic novels with miracles as part of the story — Brideshead Revisited, The End of
Paris: Prisoner of the Barbarians
‘In February 2007, a naked, emaciated, mutilated, charred and stabbed man is discovered near railway tracks in the Parisian suburb of Sainte Geneviève-des-Bois. He is
Demons in the Details
Hollywood and physics should be kept apart — pretty much like matter and anti-matter