The road to redemption
Two zeitgeisty novels about belonging
Through the plashy fen
Stella Tillyard's novel The Great Level is a strange and elusive beast
A la France profonde
Snails, wine and history in northern Burgundy
The priesthood of the priggish
Does contemporary Western civilisation face any threat more pressing than that which emanates from within our own societies?
The gentleman and the player
For many, Swanton and Arlott embodied the soul of cricket themselves
Tricks of Memory
Far more than just a jolly trip down memory lane, with a backdrop of dreaming spires, this is a moving and mature work
An Italian take on time and space
Events in the quantum world do not form an orderly queue but crowd around in a chaotic fashion
Amid the alien corn
Maize is a far more useful grain than we give it credit for
Musical mountain obscured by cloud
Two centuries on, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata is still as enigmatic and sublime as ever
A sufi sage for the ages
Ibn Khaldun has been repackaged to serve contemporary concerns many times, but Robert Irwin's biography cuts through the myth-making