Unquiet Flows the Don
Book review of The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Alice Through the Masterclass
Book review of New Selected Stories by Alice Munro
What Survives of Him is Love
Philip Larkin's letters to his lover Monica Jones speak of a non-sexual intimacy and chart his progression to poetic maturity
Fat Chance for Christie—This Time
'By 2016 Chris Christie will have a solid raft of achievements that he can sell to the American people—he is a president biding his time'
Books Do Furnish a Little Freedom
'The cover of my new book was likely to shock Pakistani sensibilities but my local book store owner said he'd keep it under the counter with the Salman Rushdie novels. Not the
Obstacle Source
Government financial obstacles often start as interventions. But they have a habit of making life more difficult for the Chancellor and his aides
Planet Mirth
Matthew Sinclair's new book, Let Them Eat Carbon, rightly draws attention to the foibles of climate change policy, rather than the global warming debate itself
Intelligence Spared
‘Europe’s intellectuals should get on with the job of helping to lift the continent out of its apparently endless crisis’
The Red Roots of Folk Music
Folk music has long been influenced by ultra-Left politics. Yet as the example of composer Cornelius Cardew has shown, even those with Communist sympathies have things to teach us about community music
Durable Diplomatist
Book review of Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny by John Bew
Melodrama of a Manic Moralist
Book review of Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
The Greatest and Most Terrible
Book review of All Hell Let Loose: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings