Building on Pevsner
Christopher Tadgell's seven-volume Architecture In Context is astonishingly ambitious, and effortlessly even-handed
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Towards the end of the story
Stephen Glover's Fleet Street novel Splash! is a burlesque treat
A vase by any other name
An exhibition lets us see objects from Matisse’s studio alongside the paintings he used them in
The Self Is Everywhere — And Yet Nowhere
In the absence of the soul, selfhood is located in the brain. But can identity be identified?
And I Too Have Been In Anglo-Arcadia
The Durrells' Anglo-Greek love affair — and Catherine Brown's
How Self-Help Doesn’t Help Us
The self-help guru Svend Brinkmann's antidote to self-help culture
The Enduring Myths Of Catholic Inequality
Anti-Catholic calumnies remain deeply embedded in our culture. Professor Rodney Stark's Bearing False Witness hopes to refute them
Last Of The Great Elitists
A book of conversations with George Steiner, newly available in translation, is a good introduction to the great cultural critic's preoccupations
Hellenistic Hubris
Johanna Hanink's The Greek Debt asks if we owe the Greeks for the foundations of Western democracy—or do they owe us for their economic mismanagement?
Look The East End In The Face
Charles Saumarez Smith's East London is a voyage of discovery into the richness and variety of an area in constant flux
A Great Creative Artist, Not Just A Victim
A new Rome exhibition reveals how Artemisia Gentileschi bravely reshaped her life and art
Tricks Of Memory
Novels by Francesca Segal and Anna Stothard take on the plight of the modern Millenial