Music, Terror, Garlic Amulets
Julian Barnes's 'The Noise of Time'
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The Fine Art Of Editing Reveals The Real Eliot
The new edition of Eliot's elusive poems surprises, delights and informs
Erotic Tonic For A Mad World
Catullus's life — and snapshots of metropolitan Rome — are revealed through his poems in Daisy Dunn's quick-witted biography
The History Of Our History
Two new editions of classic texts illuminate the duality of deep histories
Life In The Left Behind Party
How UKIP metamorphosed from ex-Tory Eurobores to a political force appealing to all manner of malcontents
The Battle Of Wills That The Soviet Union Lost
The reality of the end of the Cold War was a lot more complicated than the myths which have formed around it would suggest
Sinister March Of The Tall Fellow
A new biography of Eamon de Valera, one of the most important and mysterious figures in Irish history
‘Musical’ Men And Money
"Why does a fabulously wealthy heiress marry an impecunious, if upper-crust, rampantly gay chancer who has more than a hint of the gold-digger about him?"
Wizardry But Not A Miracle
The Conservative election victory was surprising — but not to those on the inside of the Tory machine
War Recollected In Tranquillity
Walter Kempowski has taken over Gunter Grass's title of postwar German sage
The Story Of The Short Story
A new anthology highlights the shortfalls of contemporary outlets for short fiction
Margaret Thatcher Versus The Intellectuals
The first female PM faced unprecedented vitriol from snobbish cultural bureaucrats