From Kitsch to Cool: Picasso and Modern Art
Marxist art historians cherish his Cubism, but he later became a true artist, not just a modernist
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Can Science Replace Religion In Our Lives?
That materialists and ministers struggle to justify morality shows there is still a place for Christianity in intellectual and public life
More Things in Heaven and Earth
In philosophical circles, it was once heresy to challenge Darwinian reductionism. That is now changing
At Home with the Letwins’ Salon
Bill and Shirley Letwin kept open house for open minds from Chicago to Cambridge and Hampstead
Literary Biography is on Life Support
The art of recording a writer’s career will have to be reinvented to survive in the internet era
The Few Who Rule The Many
Alan Ryan’s colossal new history of political thought is an ambitious but engaging piece of scholarship
The Artistic Legacy of the Great War
The global impact of World War I changed the arts forever. Its effects are still felt a century later
This Strange and Contradictory Poet
Far from being a thoroughly aestheticised figure, John Keats had an active social conscience; his critics were suspicious of his radical politics
Hidden Sanctuary Of Byzantine Art
A closed-off dark age church in Rome reveals the true majesty of an often under-appreciated Byzantine tradition
Eliot Agonistes: Letters to and from the editor
The latest volume of T.S. Eliot's letters provide agreeable shocks and reveals the travails of both his professional and love lives
Strange Death of the English Gentleman
Cameron's sustained attempt to hide his gentlemanliness reflects wider society's rejection of good moral conduct
Adam Smith: The Morality of the Invisible Hand
The Wealth of Nations should not be seen as separate from Smith's moral philosophy — it itself is a profoundly moral text