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Pride of the CUP

Cambridge University Press have just published a book by an anti-Zionist, anti-democratic Hegelian elitist. The reason? He has the right enemies

August 29, 2012

Academia·Counterpoints·Publishing

Gore the Bore

I once met Gore Vidal at a dinner party. He was less an intellectual heavyweight and more a drunken and repetitive bore

August 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Literature

Clutching at Straws and Tilting at Minarets

Two new books on the origins of Islam suffer from, at best, sloppy, and at worst, dishonest, scholarship

August 29, 2012

Books·Islam

A Long Way From Cable Street

Robert Wistrich's new study of anti-Semitism brilliantly elucidates how the Left has betrayed the Israel for which it once campaigned

August 29, 2012

Books·Israel·Judaism·UK Politics

Elizabethan Enigma

Edmund Spenser: A Life by Andrew Hadfield is vivid in parts, but ultimately fails to paint a clear picture of the 16th century poet

August 29, 2012

Books·Literature

The Admirable Criterion

A new collection of Roger Kimball's literary and cultural criticism places him in the exalted company of Augustine Birrell and Walter Bagehot

August 29, 2012

Books

Pandora’s Books

Belinda Jack's The Woman Reader charts the fascinating history of female literacy from Sappho to illegal book clubs in modern-day Iran

August 29, 2012

Books·Gender·Literature

Kilburn Confidential

After a seven-year hiatus, Zadie Smith returns with her fourth novel, NW. It is in turn vivid, angry and surprising

August 29, 2012

Books·Literature

Olympian Angst

'Germans longed for Olympic medals as validation, but were surprised at how London rose to the occasion'

August 29, 2012

European Eye·Germany·Sport

Romney Takes a Risk with Ryan

'Paul Ryan will thrash Joe Biden in debate and the Tea Party will enthusiastically endorse their poster boy but Romney's choice of running mate will attract few new voters'

August 29, 2012

Dispatches·US Politics

Reach For the Sky

While woeful arts coverage on ITV and the BBC looks beyond saving, the two Sky Arts channels offer brave, and often unpredictable, film-making

August 28, 2012

Culture & Anarchy·Music·TV

Going Mainstream

Television networks have long since abandoned chess but a multi-millionaire promoter plans to catapult it back into the limelight

August 28, 2012

Chess·Sport

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