From Jargon To Incantation
An update of Roger Scruton's takedown of Leftist intellectuals is even sharper than its predecessor
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The First City To Be Coventried
The Coventry raid has stuck in the collective memory for a variety of reasons
Magdalen’s Bad Old Days
RW "Bill" Johnson's memoir of the college is a rattling good read
Where The White Stuff Came From
Edmund De Waal's personal history of porcelain
Not Short, Not Sweet
When it comes the the novel, big isn't always beautiful
Comeback For Political Novels?
The Daily Mail's Stakhanovite sketchwriter has finally written his debut novel
Iris Murdoch, The Virtuoso Of Virtue
The letters of the great writer reveal affairs with both sexes but also an intense intellectual and spiritual life
Floating In The Void
Alexander Calder’s mobiles display both a musical stateliness and a satisfying sense of equlibrium
Standing The Test Of Spacetime
The greatest scientists, such as Einstein, often made their greatest discoveries by thought experiments
Giambattista Bodoni
Every piece by the Italian printer and type designer is a paragon of the art
America’s Silver Bullet
Might the world’s second-ranked player, Hikaru Nakamura, manage to emulate his countryman Bobby Fischer? The launch of the Hollywood biopic Pawn Sacrifice, with Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer, has given rise to
The Mind’s Eye
The mysterious phenomenon of aphantasia