After the Sea of Faith Withdraws
The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change by S.J.D. Green
Reptiles, Sharks and Other People
Book review of The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee and Other People’s Money by Justin Cartwright
Long Live the Novella
Two recently translated European novellas, by Sophie Divry and Brigit Vanderbeke, are wonderful examples of this short literary form
The Long Life of a Charming Nomad
In her biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper tells the compelling story of an extraordinary career
A Novel Way to Treat a Writer
I have been inundated with emails from GCSE and A-level students who want me to spoonfeed answers on their set texts
Grandes Dames who Didn’t Give a Damn
Book review of Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson, New Women in Search of Love and Power by Susan Hertog
Shelley’s Arab Spring
In the wake of the Arab Spring, Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam looks mightily prophetic
Novel Delights
'"You can't write a novel," she said. But, at last, I have' - Craig Raine details the lengthy birth pains of his fiction debut
Pilgrim of Meaning
Newman’s Unquiet Grave: Portrait of a Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell There has not been, to say the least, a paucity of books about John Henry Newman, or of books which touch