A Wee Dram of History
Review of new poetry from Carol Ann Duffy, Derwent May, W.G. Sebald and Tomas Tranströmer
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Conscience is not for Conservatives
Book review of The Conservatives: A History by Robin Harris
Those Damned Papists Again
Book review of The Elizabethans by A.N. Wilson
Remembered Ernestly
Book review of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 1, 1907-1922, edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon
Defender of the Faith
Book review of Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots of Free Societies by Marcello Pera
Some of Their Best Friends
Book review of The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England from Cromwell to Churchill by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Grandes Dames who Didn’t Give a Damn
Book review of Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson, New Women in Search of Love and Power by Susan Hertog
Unquiet Flows the Don
Book review of The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo
Alice Through the Masterclass
Book review of New Selected Stories by Alice Munro
Durable Diplomatist
Book review of Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny by John Bew
Melodrama of a Manic Moralist
Book review of Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
The Greatest and Most Terrible
Book review of All Hell Let Loose: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings