Conversation Stopper
Zoffany, 'the one-eyed German', was one of many masters of a very British sub-genre
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Eliot versus Hardy
Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot are the two greatest 20th-century poets in the English language, despite what they may have thought of one another. It is remarkable that the readers of Hardy's
A Macabre New Vision of Spain
The influence of religious sculpture on the Golden Age painters suddenly becomes clear
Schiller’s Poetics of Freedom
The plays of Friedrich Schiller can guide us, or offer a guide to self-guidance, so that we may preserve our freedoms in the face of conflicting moral imperatives
Deadly Possibilities
Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marias
Scandinavian Scandals
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Genius at Work
Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times by William E. Wallace
Mum’s the Word
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross
A Good Look at Logic
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitrou
1688 and All That
1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus
Bloodstained Chancer
Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
Entrenched Enemies
The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan