The Greatest Man I Ever Knew?
The rich, varied, and absorbing life, and careers, of John Freeman
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Left Foot Forward
A plethora of new Left-leaning French magazines show that in France the intellectuals remain socialist
Victorian Values
A "Metaphysical" dining society sets an example for today's academics
Drawing A Line
How did a cartoonist who regularly draws Mohammed feel on hearing about the events in Paris?
Write On
In today's publishing world, independent authors are at a huge advantage
Poetic Injustice
The Arts Council is no longer subsidising poetry publishers but giving direct grants to poets instead. The result: the death of the enriching working relationship between editor and poet
Publisher Be Damned
The feud at Germany’s most respected publishing house reads like a passage from Vanity Fair written by Thomas Mann
Pride of the CUP
Cambridge University Press have just published a book by an anti-Zionist, anti-democratic Hegelian elitist. The reason? He has the right enemies
Writers of the World, Unite
Politics and the Novel During the Cold War by David Caute
In the Loopy
'The Sexual Politics of Meat' is a dotty book, but a dangerous book too
Eliot versus Hardy
Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot are the two greatest 20th-century poets in the English language, despite what they may have thought of one another. It is remarkable that the readers of Hardy's
The Character of Englishness
Dr Johnson, the greatest writer of critical prose in the English language, was able to impart to his readers both human nature in general, and the character of Englishness in particular