Burke’s Enduring Brilliance
A new book shows how Edmund Burke's thoughts are still relevant to our present discontents
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Talking ’Bout My Generation
Three memoirs explain what it was like growing up in the postwar era and how their generation shaped Britain and America
Molly Bloom’s Day in Court
The epic story of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses is well-deserving of its own biography
First Novel on a Booker Mission
Zia Haider Rahman is erudite and articulate - but no novelist
The Age of the Warrior Poet
It is a remarkable fact that WW1 produced a distinctive brand of poetry, and poets, and WW2 nothing comparable
Scandinavia in slow motion
Karl Ove Knausgaard is a tedious chronicler of his own life
Poet of Eternal Summer
Rupert Brooke deserves to be taken seriously
Message in a Bottle
Roger Scruton’s Notes from Underground is a loving portrait of the beauty and desolation of Communist-era Prague Having known Roger Scruton for quite some time, I knew I was in for something
War, Poets, and the Poetry of War
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon should be remembered as soldiers who were brave enough to show us what war was really like
The Intellectual of The Masses
John Carey sticks up for 'ordinary life' in his memoir The Unexpected Professor
The Bard and his Collaborators
The plays included in William Shakespeare and Others may fall outside the bard’s official canon, but many of them display the virtuoso hallmarks of the great man
Both Ancient and Avant-Garde
A new expanded edition of E.E. Cummings’s Collected Poems demonstrates that, despites his brief sojourns in the avant-garde, the poet always found his way to a profound simplicity A terrible crisis has