A Life Less Ordinary
Book review of G.K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Ode to Joyce
Book review of James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker
Star-crossed Purposes
Book review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
In the Steps of the Spanish
Book reviews of Love: A Secret History by Simon May and All About Love by Lisa Appignanesi
The Sublime and the Beautiful
Two summer exhibitions at the National Gallery throw light on heaven and earth
The Longest Journey Will Always Lie Ahead
The last of the wartime travel writers, Patrick Leigh Fermor, may have departed the scene, but the genre he graced is still thriving
Object Lesson
The recently deceased music-loving Sony boss Norio Ohga cared more about the art than the money
Junk and Bunk
Damian Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull is a worthless as it is indulgent
He Never Had It So Good
Review of The Macmillan Diaries Prime Minister and After, 1957-1966 Edited by Peter Catterall Macmillan
After Strange Gods
Review of Treason of the Heart: From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby by David Pryce-Jones
False Dawn of Revolution
Book review of Beacon for Change: How the 1951 Festival of Britain Shaped the Modern Age by Barry Turner
Outsider’s Insight
Book review of The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst