The Prime And Vigour Of His Life
The final volume of Burke's writings proves we are living in a golden age of Burke scholarship
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Brave Old Worlds
Two recently reissued novels by Aldous Huxley confront the reader with stark metaphysical truths
Baffle Us — But Don’t Bore Us
Conceptualism was briefly a vital response to commercialism in modern art. Then it ran out of ideas
Heart Of Darkness By The Thames
An epic journey through 21st century London
Even Men Of Ideas Are Mortal
The philosopher Bryan Magee offers up his ultimate philosophical reflections
An Editor Ahead Of His Time
David Astor was the man who made the Observer the most popular Sunday paper of its time
Not Too Tricky To Be Ike’s Veep
The President And The Apprentice is an intriguingly contrarian retelling of the story of Nixon and the Eisenhower presidency
Clearing The Fog Of War
Tim Judah's In Wartime provides a first-hand picture of what is happening on the ground in Ukraine
But Have They Starved?
The Prose Factory is a spirited dash through British literary history — and the many ways writers have struggled to pay their bills
The Value Of Victoria
Paula Bartley's biography of Queen Victoria, based on the monarch's letters and journals, brings out surprising contradictions
Music, Terror, Garlic Amulets
Julian Barnes's 'The Noise of Time'
Raymond Radiguet: Mad About The Boy
Cocteau’s poetic protégé was a louche literary wunderkind the world lost too soon