The Sex Factor
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism by Natasha Walter
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
On Being an Essayist
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
A Brain of Two Halves
The Master and his Emissary — The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
Travels with Tocqueville
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Making an Impression
A new exhibition in Madrid casts a rich new light on the 19th-century French masters In April 1874, a group of young French artists shunned by the art establishment held an exhibition
Seductive Pursuits
Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie and Best Seat in the House by Frank Johnson
So Different From the Poetry
The Letters of T.S. Eliot — Volume 2: 1923-25
Spare the Thumbscrews
The Italian Inquisition by Christopher F. Black
Guide to the Perplexed
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews
City of Memories and Regrets
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely
A Reader’s Guide to Thatcherism
As anti-Thatcher literature blossomed in the 1980s, it was tempting to argue that the Right had won the economic war and the Left had won the cultural war. But the real victors of the past 30 years
An End to the Myth of the Tortured Soul
What was Van Gogh really like? A new exhibition brings us closer to the truth In a career lasting no more than ten years, Vincent Van Gogh produced about 900 paintings and 1,100