Close to the Bone
The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Fading Glitter
Final Demands by Frederic Raphael
Trevor-Roper and Gibbon: A Tale of Two Historians
Hugh Trevor Roper was the greatest historical stylist of the 20th century. Yet he never produced a masterpiece to rival that of his great hero and predecessor, Edward Gibbon
It Could Be Worse
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
Prodigal Brother
The Rage Against God: Why Faith is the Foundation of Civilisation by Peter Hitchens
The Poetical Mollusc
True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound by Christopher Ricks
Men From the Ministry
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary — Two Centuries of Conflict and Personalities by Douglas Hurd
Great Dane
The work of Christen Købke is relatively unknown outside his native land. More's the pity
The Master of Historical Fiction
Allan Massie salutes Sir Walter Scott, master of historical fiction and author of among others, Rob Roy and Waverley
Concerning Frank Kermode
Britain's most distinguished literary critic, who turned 90 last year, has many achievements to be proud of. But does the indefatigable grand old man of EngLit ever regret his role in promoting
The Great Experimentalist
The new Henry Moore retrospective re-establishes him as a pivotal artist of his time
A Very Foreign Foreigner
Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell