False Dawn of Revolution
Book review of Beacon for Change: How the 1951 Festival of Britain Shaped the Modern Age by Barry Turner
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Outsider’s Insight
Book review of The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Artistic Suffering
Book review of At Last by Edward St Aubyn
Blundering in the Desert
Book review of Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
Well Worth an Arm and a Leg
Book review of Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe by Charles Freeman and Walsingham: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage by Michael Rear
Being Is Believing
Book review of A Philosophical Retrospective: Facts, Values and Jewish Identity by Alan Montefiore Alan Montefiore has been continuously engaged in teaching, writing and promoting philosophy for over 50 years; and in
Good But Not Great
Book review of The Pale King by David Foster Wallace Virginia Woolf’s reputation has always baffled me. I have tried her books repeatedly over the years and I have (and this is
French Lessons in Liberty
Alexis de Tocqueville saw that 19th-century America combated individualism through the art of association. Are there lessons here for Cameron's 21st-century Big Society?
Blowing the BBC’s Gaff
Book review of When One Door Closes by Peter Sissons
After the Sea of Faith Withdraws
The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change by S.J.D. Green
Grade Deflation
To Miss With Love by Katharine Birbalsingh
Reptiles, Sharks and Other People
Book review of The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee and Other People’s Money by Justin Cartwright