Durable Diplomatist
Book review of Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny by John Bew
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Melodrama of a Manic Moralist
Book review of Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
The Greatest and Most Terrible
Book review of All Hell Let Loose: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
Moderation in (Almost) All
Book review of Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
Blurred Visionary
Gerhard Richter’s distinctive and diverse work is ultimately defined by its old-fashioned beauty
Continental Philosophies
Review of The Appointment by Herta Müller; Perlmann's Silence by Pascal Mercier; and The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Fornication’s Early Years
Review of Rome by Robert Hughes
God Does More Than Make Us Tick
Review of The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
Democratic Disenchantment
Book review of Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-century Europe by Jan-Werner Müller
Apocalypse Then
John Martin was celebrated in life yet disregarded in death. A new show aims to resurrect him
They’ll Always Have Paris
Cynthia Ozick's intricate and artful new novel Foreign Bodies echoes the majesty of Henry James's late period
The Erotic Inferno
Book review of Dante in Love by A.N. Wilson