The Erotic Inferno
Book review of Dante in Love by A.N. Wilson
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
A Life Less Ordinary
Book review of G.K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker
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
Crossroads
Book review of A Pilgrim in Spain by Christopher Howse
Our Superman in Havana
The great man of letters was better at holding a debate than his drink
Interpenetration
The utopian Labour peer's new science of happiness is doing wonders for its inventor
The Genius of Geometry
David Brooks is political flavour of the month this side of the Atlantic, so in thrall is Westminster to Barack Obama
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
Shock Value
For all the Arts community's grandstanding about its political value, none of its number was brave enough to protest the late, great M.F. Husain's plight