Those Damned Papists Again
Book review of The Elizabethans by A.N. Wilson
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
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
David Hockney: A Life Spent Looking
A major retrospective of David Hockney's work at the Royal Academy showcases the Yorkshire-born artist's love of his Northern homeland
Things Visible and Invisible
The National Gallery’s new Leonardo show illuminates his quest for painterly perfection
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
What Survives of Him is Love
Philip Larkin's letters to his lover Monica Jones speak of a non-sexual intimacy and chart his progression to poetic maturity
Finally Finished
The new Finlandia Hall in Helsinki has been transformed by a Japanese mystic with an ear for acoustics
The Red Roots of Folk Music
Folk music has long been influenced by ultra-Left politics. Yet as the example of composer Cornelius Cardew has shown, even those with Communist sympathies have things to teach us about community music